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Vikings Announce their 2026 QB1 and TSH 2026 Pick ‘Em | TSH Ep. 150 · The Skol Hop

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  Speaker 1: All right, Hey, Vikings fans, welcome into another episode of
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  Speaker 1: The Skull Hop. I'm Evan and I'm Austin. We're's a
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  Speaker 1: couple of dudes from Iowa. We like drinking beer and
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  Speaker 1: talking about the Vikings.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah we do. And hey, the Vikings made a pretty
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  Speaker 2: important announcement today for the winner of their quarterback one job,
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  Speaker 2: and we definitely spent some time talking about that. And
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  Speaker 2: I may have had a wardrobe change.
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  Speaker 1: Interesting, spicy. We also tried a new brewery on the podcast,
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  Speaker 1: first time ever. Alluvial Brewing out of Ames, Iowa was
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  Speaker 1: pretty good. I would recommend their beer.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I liked it a lot too. We also spent
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  Speaker 2: the rest of the episode giving our predictions for each
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  Speaker 2: game of the season and that was a lot of
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  Speaker 2: fun too.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and per our tradition, we let a coin help
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  Speaker 1: us with some of the predictions and it gave its
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  Speaker 1: two cents too, so we'll see what it comes up with.
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  Speaker 2: Careful around the beers, man. So, speaking of beers, go
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  Speaker 2: ahead and grab a cold. Want to join us for
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  Speaker 2: episode one fifty of the Skull Hop school let skull.
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  Speaker 1: All right, We're going to dive into some beer. I'm
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  Speaker 1: excited me too. I am pretty sure we would have
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  Speaker 1: to go back to our list here and look, I
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  Speaker 1: don't think we've had this beer. In fact, no, as
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  Speaker 1: I type that into our spreadsheet of beers. Alluvial Brewing
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  Speaker 1: out of Ames, Iowa, home to Iowa State University.
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  Speaker 2: Not the brewery, but the university.
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  Speaker 1: I'm pretty impartial between in Iowa and Iowa State.
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  Speaker 2: Okay, you should be. We both attended a different I
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  Speaker 2: went to you and I, so I'm impartial to them.
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  Speaker 1: But anyways, I was in Ames a long time ago.
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  Speaker 1: This was probably twenty eighteen, so eight nine years ago.
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  Speaker 1: I was there for a training for work. I was
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  Speaker 1: there for a week and I just decided, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm going to try to find cool places to drink
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  Speaker 1: beer in the evenings while I'm here. I didn't really
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  Speaker 1: know anybody. I was kind of on my own, and
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  Speaker 1: I stumbled upon Alluvial Brewing. It's kind of out a
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  Speaker 1: couple miles outside of town and games on the north side.
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  Speaker 2: I wouldn't want to be in Names either. You know,
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  Speaker 2: it's a cool spot.
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  Speaker 1: Ames is a cool place in general. I would love
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  Speaker 1: to go to a game at Jack Trice Stadium. I
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  Speaker 1: think that would be sweet, and I think Iowa State,
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  Speaker 1: for whatever you think about them, they've poured a lot
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  Speaker 1: of money into their athletics program.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, aren't they like bankrupt? No, I thought they had
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  Speaker 2: a situation. No, like a year ago.
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  Speaker 1: No, Jamie Pollard, their ad is retiring at the end
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  Speaker 1: of this year, and he's they're touting all of the
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  Speaker 1: different things that he's done since he's been the ADA.
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  Speaker 2: I might be wrong. I really thought I read something
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  Speaker 2: and we're getting off track here, but I thought Iowa
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  Speaker 2: State was like in financial trouble just for their athletics Anyways.
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  Speaker 1: I don't think so. Anyways, Alluvial Brewing it's in Ames
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  Speaker 1: which is a good place, but the brewery is better.
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  Speaker 1: And I've never seen a Louvial beer canned in our
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  Speaker 1: local high ve, so as soon as I saw it,
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  Speaker 1: I was like, that's the one. Gotta try it tonight.
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  Speaker 1: So we're gonna try their lost Tombagas, which sounds Mexican
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  Speaker 1: and I'm probably pronouncing it wrong, but it says n
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  Speaker 1: Eipa at the bottom, so I would assume that's the
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  Speaker 1: northeast or New England Ipa northeast is the same thing,
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  Speaker 1: But yeah, technically New England. Yeah, let's crack these bad
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  Speaker 1: boys open.
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  Speaker 2: I'm excited about can Art's very like golden and there's
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  Speaker 2: like a pirate medallion on there. It kind of reminds
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  Speaker 2: me of what Jack Sparrow stole. Yeah, I can see that,
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  Speaker 2: which is funny because I said that about three minutes
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  Speaker 2: before we recorded. And oh no, oh man, oh no.
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  Speaker 1: You criticized me last week for having a bad poor
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  Speaker 1: and now I make up for it and made my
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  Speaker 1: beer overflow.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we are using the old school football glasses, which
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  Speaker 2: kind of taper up at the top, and yeah, I
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  Speaker 2: may have cheated a little bit and kind of slowed
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  Speaker 2: down my poor. So Evan, you spilled your beer a
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  Speaker 2: little bit, that's okay.
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  Speaker 1: Sorry, Sorry to our friend Dick Davies for spilling the beer.
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  Speaker 2: He's gonna cut He might slap you.
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  Speaker 1: It's my fault.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, this, uh, this already smells really good and
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  Speaker 2: getting good wish, probably because you spilled a ton of
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  Speaker 2: it out.
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  Speaker 1: So yeah, and I then grabbed a lemon scented Clorox
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  Speaker 1: wipe to clean it up.
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  Speaker 2: Hopefully that doesn't affect our taste of this. But I'm
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  Speaker 2: not going to pretend to have a sophisticated enough palette
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  Speaker 2: to know that.
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  Speaker 1: But school School, that's really good. I feel like you,
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  Speaker 1: of all people, would love a beer.
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  Speaker 2: Like this that's super good, and considering it's probably brewed
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  Speaker 2: by Cyclone fans, I'll give it. I'll give it some
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  Speaker 2: grace here. This is really good. I don't see like
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  Speaker 2: a percentage on the can, but with these New Englands,
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  Speaker 2: it can be kind of hard to tell. I won't
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  Speaker 2: even give a give a guess at the percentage, but yeah,
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  Speaker 2: super good flavor. It's definitely it's a New England I
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  Speaker 2: p A in in every aspect of the term. Kind
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  Speaker 2: of juicy, hazy, pretty dark for an I p A.
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  Speaker 2: I mean it's a dark orange color. You're not really
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  Speaker 2: seeing through it.
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  Speaker 1: Oh, it's six point nine percent according to their website.
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  Speaker 2: That's pretty high. Even with that high high ish it's
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  Speaker 2: not like, you know, record breaking, but even with that
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  Speaker 2: higher alcohol content. I think I'm gonna for the for
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  Speaker 2: the on mower scale. Man. Uh, I wonder if I
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  Speaker 2: give this exact score a ton of times and I
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  Speaker 2: just don't remember because I don't write them down. Maybe
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  Speaker 2: we should write them down, But I think I'm gonna
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  Speaker 2: go like seventy nine.
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  Speaker 1: I think that's slightly higher. I think you've been in
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  Speaker 1: like the seven to five, right, Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So so I started saying, I think I'd give the
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  Speaker 2: score all the time, and in my brain it was
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  Speaker 2: like seven four, and I've probably given seven to four
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  Speaker 2: quite a bit. But yeah, like seven to nine. The
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  Speaker 2: only reason it's not any higher is because, like, I mean,
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  Speaker 2: that's seven percent, you know, which six point nine percent,
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  Speaker 2: which again is not high by any means, but it's
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  Speaker 2: like on the higher end. And if I wanna, you know,
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  Speaker 2: throw a few back after mowing the lawn, usually I'm
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  Speaker 2: super sweaty and gross, I want to throw a few back,
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  Speaker 2: not like three, you know, and this, you know, two
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  Speaker 2: or three or four would probably be my max with
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  Speaker 2: this if I don't want to wake up with a
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  Speaker 2: headache tomorrow. But yeah, Flavors Super Good still got really
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  Speaker 2: good head retention after a couple of minutes. Even Yeah,
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  Speaker 2: I just like this one. And even though it's probably
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  Speaker 2: brewed by Cyclone fans, Evan, what do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Well, I like there. It's a pretty straightforward description on
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  Speaker 1: their website, but it gives me some context for what
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  Speaker 1: I'm tasting, and it makes sense it says it's a
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  Speaker 1: hazy ipa double dry hopped with elder auto hops pronounced
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  Speaker 1: citrus pineapple and gummy bear notes, and like that was
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  Speaker 1: one of the first things I noticed after the first taste.
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  Speaker 1: I was like, there's a subtle sweetness to it that's
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  Speaker 1: actually really nice and it must be that gummy bear.
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  Speaker 1: I don't know if they put gummy bears in there
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  Speaker 1: or if it's just like some sort of sugar they
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  Speaker 1: put in that is that way, but it's it's delightful.
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  Speaker 2: I have heard that term gummy bear like attributed attributed
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  Speaker 2: given to some beers, and I've never really understood it,
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  Speaker 2: but maybe it is that like that specific type of sweetness.
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  Speaker 2: Like it's a really good New England ipa. It's hop
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  Speaker 2: it's you know, full of flavor, but there is that
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  Speaker 2: hint of like specific sweetness. And I've had like straight
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  Speaker 2: up called gummy bear beers and they have that, you know,
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  Speaker 2: unique specific sweetness, and that's probably what it is. Either way,
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  Speaker 2: I'm really glad that we're trying. This makes me want
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  Speaker 2: to go there, even though I'd have to go to Ames,
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  Speaker 2: which is kind of gross, but.
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  Speaker 1: I'm saying we can go to an Iowa State game.
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  Speaker 1: We can go to the Sihaw game. It might be
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  Speaker 1: a good luck getting tickets. Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even know where it's at this year, but
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  Speaker 2: uh yeah, I like the spirit a lot. Thank you
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  Speaker 2: for bringing it there.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah. Good stuff. Well, we've got a lot to talk
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  Speaker 1: about tonight, and we're going to get into our pickham,
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  Speaker 1: which actually seems somewhat small in relation to some pretty
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  Speaker 1: big news that came out from Vikings training camp.
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  Speaker 2: I think like today, oh ka, right just today, right
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  Speaker 2: before noon today.
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  Speaker 1: And that news is that Kyler Murray has been officially
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  Speaker 1: named quarterback one.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah. So, I mean, if you're watching on YouTube or Spotify,
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  Speaker 2: you know I've been wearing the the JJ McCarthy throwback
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  Speaker 2: jersey for I don't know, four or five episodes now
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  Speaker 2: at least, and I've said I'm gonna keep wearing it
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  Speaker 2: until it's announced that JJ is no longer the starter.
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  Speaker 2: And here we go. I gotta I gotta takeoffs. We
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  Speaker 2: need to put in all the like gasping sound effects.
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  Speaker 2: I'm repping the Kyler jersey. I did get I did
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  Speaker 2: get it. I don't know if you can you can't
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  Speaker 2: see it. I'm repping the Kyler Murray Jersey it's number one.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna wear this until it's announced that he's
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  Speaker 2: no longer the starter. But I just figured for the transition,
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  Speaker 2: and this is a fake one. I got it from
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  Speaker 2: the Chinese website. But this is really just my way
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  Speaker 2: of saying, yes, I've been rooting for JJ. I've been
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  Speaker 2: a JJ guy. I think it would would have been
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  Speaker 2: the best scenario for the team had JJ gotten himself
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  Speaker 2: to a point where he earned the job. But having
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  Speaker 2: said all that, I'm a Vikings fan, and whoever is
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  Speaker 2: playing for my team, that's who I'm excited for. I'm
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  Speaker 2: not gonna be pissed off if Kyler Murray does well,
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  Speaker 2: and I'm not gonna say like, well, this sucks because
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  Speaker 2: the guy I wanted to start for the next ten
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  Speaker 2: years isn't gonna be there. I'm also not gonna be
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  Speaker 2: happy if Kyler throws an interception. You know, I'm not
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  Speaker 2: gonna be like, all right, it's almost JJ time. Like
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna be the one of the probably lots
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  Speaker 2: of Vikings fans because we're a faction, there's always something
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  Speaker 2: that splits us Vikings fans, and you know, the second
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  Speaker 2: Kyler has a bad game, Like just because it's gonna happen,
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  Speaker 2: everybody has a bad game. Sometimes the first time he
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  Speaker 2: has a bad game, Twitter is gonna explode with all right,
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  Speaker 2: throw JJ in, we know what we have with Kyler
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  Speaker 2: Now he's terrible, Like, we're just gonna hear that garbage. No,
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  Speaker 2: you're not gonna hear that from me. Probably I had
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  Speaker 2: to qualify that, but I truly am I'm I'm okay
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  Speaker 2: with this decision. It has seemed like it was gonna
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  Speaker 2: be the announcement that was going to be made for
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  Speaker 2: a while now, even on the days where Kyler had
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  Speaker 2: an up and down day at camp, and maybe even
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  Speaker 2: if JJ had a decent day, we've known and all
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  Speaker 2: it took was, you know, a few days of camp
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  Speaker 2: for the coaches to see what they wanted to see.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what they wanted to see, but obviously
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  Speaker 2: they're good with it. And yeah, here we are. We
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  Speaker 2: have an official KOC has named a QB one and
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  Speaker 2: I think just that fact alone should excite Vikings fans.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I definitely am happy that the decision has been
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  Speaker 1: made now, and even before the first preseason game, I
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  Speaker 1: saw a lot of stuff on Twitter today that was
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  Speaker 1: basically like, oh, well, it must not have been that
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  Speaker 1: close if they're making the call this early. And I
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  Speaker 1: would tend to believe that, Like, if it was truly
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  Speaker 1: a competition, I think KOC you would have drugged it
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  Speaker 1: out at least until that first preseason game, put them
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  Speaker 1: out there see what they can do in game situations.
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  Speaker 2: But well so I may be a little delusional on this.
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  Speaker 2: I really do believe it has been a true competition,
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  Speaker 2: and maybe not. People have pointed this out in the
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  Speaker 2: NFL in twenty twenty six. It's really hard to have
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  Speaker 2: a true like open and fair and no matter what,
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  Speaker 2: everybody gets the same opportunity for a long period of time.
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  Speaker 2: It's hard to have those kinds of open competitions because
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  Speaker 2: just they have so little time to prepare for everything
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  Speaker 2: and so much to prepare for, so they really have to.
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I think as soon as Kyler Murray signed
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  Speaker 2: with the Vikings, he was all right, the goal is
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  Speaker 2: to get you ready to be the starter. You don't
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  Speaker 2: bring in a Kyler Murray like this without having that goal.
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  Speaker 2: So I really do think they were saying, yes, that's
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  Speaker 2: the goal, but we always have JJ and we want
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  Speaker 2: to get him as developed as possible. One thing we
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  Speaker 2: can't forget in all of this is people are all right,
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  Speaker 2: I've already seen it on Twitter and stuff today, like
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  Speaker 2: all right, get cut JJ, or trade JJ away, get
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  Speaker 2: JJ gone to remove that distraction or whatever. But as
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  Speaker 2: of right now, he's the only quarterback signed for this
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  Speaker 2: moment one year from now on the roster. Every other
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  Speaker 2: quarterback I guess I don't know about Max Brosmer, but
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  Speaker 2: let's be real here, He's not true. Brosmer is not
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  Speaker 2: an answer on the playing field. But as of right now,
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  Speaker 2: JJ McCarthy is the only quarterback, starter level quarterback on
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  Speaker 2: the team signed past twenty twenty six. There's some concerns
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  Speaker 2: there a little bit with Kyler Murray. He could come
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  Speaker 2: and ball out and want a big deal and make
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  Speaker 2: it difficult for the Vikings to him, or he could
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  Speaker 2: say like, yeah, Vikings, I'll listen to your offer, but
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  Speaker 2: I'm also going to listen to the other twenty five
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  Speaker 2: offers that are probably going to be out there. And
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  Speaker 2: you're in a bidding warp because he can't be tagged.
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  Speaker 2: He can't be there's a lot of restrictions in his
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  Speaker 2: current contract. I just know he cannot be franchise tagged,
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  Speaker 2: so he could ball out and make it difficult for
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  Speaker 2: the Vikings to sign him. He could suck terribly and
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  Speaker 2: make it so that the Vikings need some kind of
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  Speaker 2: answer for next year, whether that's they're gonna bench him
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  Speaker 2: and go to JJ, and JJ plays well and they're
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  Speaker 2: good with him for the future, or they just need
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  Speaker 2: competition for next you know, this time next year and
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  Speaker 2: JJ's in there competing against a different rookie, or you know,
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  Speaker 2: who knows what could happen next year, or he could
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  Speaker 2: get injured, Like there's so many things that could happen
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  Speaker 2: that it's good to have a guy right now who's
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  Speaker 2: under contract for longer than this year. So the Vikings
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  Speaker 2: are probably not going to get rid of JJ unless
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  Speaker 2: they get a phone call with a trade offer that
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  Speaker 2: you can't refuse, and it'll just be interesting to see
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  Speaker 2: how that dynamic plays out. But until then, it is
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  Speaker 2: nice to know, all right, the expectation is Kyler Murray's
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  Speaker 2: going to be barring injury or terrible play, He's QB
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  Speaker 2: one and let's go from there.
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  Speaker 1: So this is interesting. I just used the Sports Reference
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  Speaker 1: Player comparison tool. I think we've used it before. I
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  Speaker 1: think we used it a couple weeks ago. But you
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  Speaker 1: can like filter it down to specific seasons, so it's
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  Speaker 1: not just their whole careers, it's specific seasons. So this one,
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  Speaker 1: and I'll put this up right here, is comparing JJ
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  Speaker 1: in his twenty twenty five season to which would have
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  Speaker 1: been his first true season in the NFL, to starting yeah, yeah,
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  Speaker 1: to Kyler's first season in the NFL. And JJ played
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  Speaker 1: ten games, Kyler played all sixteen. JJ has a winning
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  Speaker 1: record six and four.
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  Speaker 2: Technically, Kyler went five.
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  Speaker 1: Ten and one. They both threw twelve interceptions, and they
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  Speaker 1: both rushed for four touchdowns. Interesting, So there's a lot
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  Speaker 1: of really interesting comparisons. Now, Kyler blows him out of
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  Speaker 1: the water in almost every other statistical category, yeah, prette
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  Speaker 1: from percentage passing yards he was he was Rookie of
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  Speaker 1: the Year that year, so his quarterback rating was eighty
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  Speaker 1: seven point four to JJ's seventy two point six. There's
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  Speaker 1: there's a lot more to like about Kyler. Yeah, oh yeah,
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  Speaker 1: even going back to his rookie year and now he's,
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  Speaker 1: you know what, going into his seventh year, eighth year,
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  Speaker 1: I think his eighth year in the league, so he's
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  Speaker 1: got more experience, he's more more mature, and now he's
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  Speaker 1: not playing for the team that drafted him. So it's
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  Speaker 1: kind of like a prove it situation, you know.
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  Speaker 2: Oh, it absolutely is a prove it. I mean, I
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  Speaker 2: think we read a Dustin Baker article from months ago
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  Speaker 2: that pointed out that there's a big difference in this
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  Speaker 2: upcoming season for Kyler and JJ, and I think it
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  Speaker 2: was Dustin Picker was basically pointing out, like Kyler right now,
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  Speaker 2: his mindset is to prove it to the NFL that
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  Speaker 2: he is still that Pro Bowl level Rookie of the
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  Speaker 2: Year level Kyler Murray who's worthy of a one hundred
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  Speaker 2: million plus two hundred million plus deal. Whereas JJ his
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  Speaker 2: mindset is to prove to the Vikings that he is
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  Speaker 2: QB one level and that they could rely on him
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  Speaker 2: to start games. There's there's a difference in mindset there.
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  Speaker 2: So I mean, here's what I hope. I hope whoever
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  Speaker 2: is starting quarterback for the Vikings right now Kyler Murray
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  Speaker 2: balls out. And if we're sitting here a year from
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  Speaker 2: now talking about the huge two hundred and fifty million
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  Speaker 2: dollar deal that the Vikings gave Kyler Murray and he's
• 17:54
  Speaker 2: totally deserving of it, Like, sign me up. That means
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  Speaker 2: great things happened and we have a quarterback. Yes, I
• 18:04
  Speaker 2: was pounding the table for JJ McCarthy, but that was
• 18:07
  Speaker 2: for JJ McCarthy to be good and obviously he didn't
• 18:09
  Speaker 2: win out the job, so that should be everyone's mindset.
• 18:13
  Speaker 2: Let's let's go Vikings.
• 18:14
  Speaker 1: Well, let's hope. Let's hope that we're sitting here in January, February,
• 18:19
  Speaker 1: whatever that is, and these numbers are true because these
• 18:24
  Speaker 1: are the seventeen game averages for Kyler Murray. A sixty
• 18:29
  Speaker 1: seven point one completion percentage, not bad, three nine ninety
• 18:34
  Speaker 1: eight yards, So we'll round up two and we'll call
• 18:36
  Speaker 1: that four thousand yards.
• 18:37
  Speaker 2: Which he's never hit four thousand in his career.
• 18:40
  Speaker 1: But that season, that's his seventeen game average, so that
• 18:43
  Speaker 1: would be awesome. A lot of his seasons were sixteen games.
• 18:46
  Speaker 1: Let's keep that in mind. So I think that average
• 18:48
  Speaker 1: takes into consideration. There could have been an extra game.
• 18:52
  Speaker 2: Kyler has only played seventeen games in a season once
• 18:55
  Speaker 2: and that was twenty twenty four, right.
• 18:57
  Speaker 1: But still that's a good number right there. Twenty four touchdowns.
• 19:01
  Speaker 1: I'd be I'd be psyched if we had a quarterback
• 19:06
  Speaker 1: that could throw that many touchdowns. Yeah, we did be
• 19:09
  Speaker 1: playing in twenty twenty four, I know.
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: But anyway, and then he went on to win a
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: Super Bowl with a different team.
• 19:14
  Speaker 1: Yeah, okay, anyways, Kyler, I'm looking forward to him. Anything
• 19:19
  Speaker 1: else that you want to say about Kyler.
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I just I think it'll be good. We have
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: seen Kyler be good in the NFL last year. Yeah,
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: he only played five games because he had a foot injury.
• 19:31
  Speaker 2: I haven't heard a peep about that injury still being
• 19:34
  Speaker 2: a concern. I'm chalking that up to he's not hurt anymore.
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: That's that's not even anything we need to worry about. However.
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: I mean, like I said, he's had it looks like
• 19:46
  Speaker 2: three seasons out of his seven finished seasons where he
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: has played and played in all every game that season
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: nineteen twenty he only played in fourteen games. In twenty
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: twenty one, I don't know if that was like a
• 20:02
  Speaker 2: resting situation, but twenty one was also a Pro Bowl
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: year for him, and then twenty twenty four he played
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: seventeen games. So that's another reason you keep a JJ
• 20:15
  Speaker 2: McCarthy on the roster is because there's a really decent
• 20:18
  Speaker 2: chance that Kyler Murray, just like most every other year
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: in his career, might miss a game or two. Big injury,
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: a little injury. I mean, he's an athletic, mobile guy
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: that definitely uses his rushing ability and in the NFL
• 20:34
  Speaker 2: that can get quarterbacks hurt sometimes. So I'm not wishing.
• 20:37
  Speaker 2: I would never wish for injury or anything, but that's
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: all the more reason to have a guy that you
• 20:42
  Speaker 2: thought could be a starter to be your backup. So
• 20:47
  Speaker 2: we will probably see JJ McCarthy play start games this year.
• 20:52
  Speaker 2: But yeah, I'm okay with Kyler Murray. This is a
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: guy who has made Pro Bowls. I think Dustin Baker
• 20:58
  Speaker 2: on the school hop here a few weeks go point
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: it out, like we've seen Kyler Murray be good. We've
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: seen when he has a good team around him, which
• 21:06
  Speaker 2: I think objectively, US Vikings fans think the rest of
• 21:10
  Speaker 2: the team, especially the defense, is pretty good. So if
• 21:14
  Speaker 2: we can support a Pro Bowl level quarterback with other
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl level players around him, should be the recipe
• 21:22
  Speaker 2: for a really good season. Yeah, and then if you're
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: still holding out hope that Kevin O'Connell is the quarterback whisperer,
• 21:30
  Speaker 2: which I took that title away from him in my
• 21:33
  Speaker 2: mind two years ago. That's all the more reason to
• 21:38
  Speaker 2: think Kyler will be good. He's got that QB whisper
• 21:40
  Speaker 2: as his head coach.
• 21:41
  Speaker 1: We'll see, we will see. Well, let's predict. I mean,
• 21:47
  Speaker 1: now that we know, let's go through the schedule. And
• 21:50
  Speaker 1: we do it every year. This will be our fourth
• 21:52
  Speaker 1: year running through our game picks, and I think having
• 21:57
  Speaker 1: some clarity at the quarterback position at least to start
• 21:59
  Speaker 1: the season. Oh it's huge, definitely impacts some of our picks.
• 22:04
  Speaker 1: So while we kind of get set up here, I'll
• 22:08
  Speaker 1: kind of orient the listener slash viewer here. So we've
• 22:13
  Speaker 1: kept a spreadsheet for the last three seasons. Now this
• 22:16
  Speaker 1: will be our fourth and we have a few different categories.
• 22:20
  Speaker 1: So Austin and I both make picks. We pick the
• 22:24
  Speaker 1: Vikings will either win or lose each game down through
• 22:27
  Speaker 1: the seventeen game schedule, and of course that's the kind
• 22:33
  Speaker 1: of the precipice for the purple punishments. So if we
• 22:37
  Speaker 1: are incorrect in our picks, if the Vikings win and
• 22:40
  Speaker 1: we said they would lose or vice versa. If they
• 22:43
  Speaker 1: lose and we said they would win, then we are
• 22:45
  Speaker 1: subject to spinning the wheel and enduring whatever punishment is
• 22:49
  Speaker 1: on that wheel. So that's kind of the primary goal
• 22:52
  Speaker 1: of this pick them is to determine who will spin
• 22:57
  Speaker 1: the wheel. Hopefully we can avoid spinning the wheel altogether.
• 23:00
  Speaker 2: I like it when we spin the wheel. I like
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: ripping the wax drip off your leg or arm.
• 23:06
  Speaker 1: My armpit, which you didn't actually do and then it
• 23:08
  Speaker 1: was sore for like a week.
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: That was terribly I think I made you bleed there
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: a little bit, yeah, a little bit.
• 23:13
  Speaker 1: Anyway, we've added and we've been doing this basically the
• 23:17
  Speaker 1: same way since we started doing it, so it's just
• 23:19
  Speaker 1: kind of tradition. But we do a coin flip. So
• 23:22
  Speaker 1: we've got the Trusty Dusty nineteen ninety one quarter here.
• 23:26
  Speaker 1: It's taken a dip in a beer before, because I
• 23:29
  Speaker 1: think the first time we did it, I flipped the
• 23:31
  Speaker 1: coin and it went right into a glass. But we'll
• 23:34
  Speaker 1: flip the coin heads is a win, tails is a loss,
• 23:38
  Speaker 1: and we'll let the coin decide what it wants with
• 23:42
  Speaker 1: the Viking schedule, and then we also collected predictions from
• 23:48
  Speaker 1: our wives and from our kids.
• 23:50
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and I got one. I did that too, this
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: collective kids like they voted. I have three kids, so
• 23:57
  Speaker 2: if two of them said win, then it was a win.
• 24:00
  Speaker 1: Last year, I went with one of my kids. So
• 24:01
  Speaker 1: this year, I'm going with the other one.
• 24:02
  Speaker 2: Oh okay, so I got it.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Sweet.
• 24:04
  Speaker 2: Nice.
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: So that's what we're gonna do. We'll probably emphasize our
• 24:09
  Speaker 1: personal picks. Yeah, but then we'll just kind of throw
• 24:11
  Speaker 1: in the other picks as we go. So Week one,
• 24:15
  Speaker 1: the Vikings play the Packers at home. Do you want
• 24:20
  Speaker 1: to reveal your pick first?
• 24:21
  Speaker 2: Sure? I said it's going to be a win. And Evan,
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: we didn't talk about this, but I gave a score
• 24:28
  Speaker 2: to everyone.
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Oh really, I did not.
• 24:31
  Speaker 2: Which, again, we didn't talk about it. But I'll give
• 24:34
  Speaker 2: a little bit of thought. I think it's going to
• 24:36
  Speaker 2: be a win. I think it'll be kind of close.
• 24:38
  Speaker 2: Twenty one eighteen Vikings, and I just think it'll be
• 24:42
  Speaker 2: a tough game between division opponents, and obviously the first
• 24:46
  Speaker 2: game paring injury, the first game Kyler Murray starts for
• 24:50
  Speaker 2: the Vikings. I think it'll be exciting. We'll see a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: couple of highlights and Kyler's gonna win over some JJ
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: McCarthy truthers, probably myself included, with a couple of fun plays.
• 25:01
  Speaker 2: It's not gonna be perfect, but yeah, I think it's
• 25:04
  Speaker 2: gonna be a good game for the Vikings. Solid win.
• 25:07
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I think the Vikings win. I'm not
• 25:10
  Speaker 1: nearly as prepared as you are to give score predictions
• 25:13
  Speaker 1: that way, but I do think there's a lot of
• 25:15
  Speaker 1: momentum right now with the Vikings. I think the quarterback
• 25:18
  Speaker 1: situation aside, there's been a lot of there's good momentum.
• 25:23
  Speaker 1: The lines, both offensive and defensive lines have improved. I
• 25:27
  Speaker 1: think I've heard some back and forth on Blake Brandell
• 25:31
  Speaker 1: a little bit. The center. I've heard good things, I've
• 25:33
  Speaker 1: heard bad things. I think that'll be a really interesting
• 25:35
  Speaker 1: position to keep an eye on. But other than that,
• 25:41
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings have really good skilled players. The
• 25:45
  Speaker 1: return of Harrison Smith is still TBD, but I think
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: that could be an interesting thing to keep an eye
• 25:50
  Speaker 1: on too. He might not be back for week one,
• 25:52
  Speaker 1: he might come back later, but I still think the
• 25:56
  Speaker 1: Vikings will take care of business at home. Again, to
• 26:00
  Speaker 1: the packers, you're filling in others, so I will do
• 26:04
  Speaker 1: the same yep.
• 26:05
  Speaker 2: I'll just say both my wife and my kids said
• 26:08
  Speaker 2: that it would be a win as well.
• 26:10
  Speaker 1: So my kids said that the Vikings would win, but
• 26:14
  Speaker 1: my wife said, now, she said that's a loss. So
• 26:19
  Speaker 1: oh really yeah, so interesting. My wife is the only
• 26:22
  Speaker 1: one that picked a Vikings loss in week one.
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: Okay, all right, there you go. I thought, here's a
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: Vikings fan.
• 26:31
  Speaker 1: Well you do the honors, all right. Flipping the coin,
• 26:33
  Speaker 1: here's a heads yep.
• 26:39
  Speaker 2: Coin says it's going to be a win. So I'm
• 26:43
  Speaker 2: okay with the coin. So far the coin can be right.
• 26:45
  Speaker 2: The coin has been streaky. I feel like in every
• 26:48
  Speaker 2: year the coin will have a lot of the same
• 26:51
  Speaker 2: choice many weeks in a row. So we'll see if
• 26:54
  Speaker 2: that happens.
• 26:56
  Speaker 1: All right, Speaking of streaks, the Vikings will go on
• 26:58
  Speaker 1: a two game road here to start the season essentially,
• 27:03
  Speaker 1: so after Week one with the Packers at home, they
• 27:05
  Speaker 1: will travel to Chicago, followed by a trip to Tampa
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Bay Week two. Bears, what do you think Chicago?
• 27:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think this is going to be the first loss.
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: I think the beginning of the season could be a
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: little up and down. There's just a lot of new
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: things happening Kevin O'Connell I think has proven in throughout
• 27:28
  Speaker 2: his tenure that one he's a good coach and two
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: he's not a coach that's going to tailor his game
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: plan to the skill set of the players. He's going
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: to try to force his players to execute the game
• 27:43
  Speaker 2: plan of his design. So I think it's going to
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: take a little bit because Kyler Murray is a quarterback
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: that other than Josh Dobbs, Kevin O'Connell has never really,
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: at least in Minnesota, coached a very mobile athletic quarterback. Obviously,
• 27:58
  Speaker 2: there's I think the heights is a little overblown, but
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: I think overall it's gonna be a little shaky in
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: the beginning of the season. So the Vikings are going
• 28:06
  Speaker 2: to go to Chicago and they're going to lose thirty
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: one to ten. I think it's going to be a
• 28:09
  Speaker 2: pretty deflating game and one that it's going to divide
• 28:13
  Speaker 2: Vikings fans a lot more interesting.
• 28:15
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I think this is also a loss. I just
• 28:18
  Speaker 1: know that the Vikings haven't played well in Chicago for
• 28:22
  Speaker 1: a while, and so it's been a little bit more
• 28:25
  Speaker 1: spotty lately. They've had maybe slightly more success as of
• 28:29
  Speaker 1: the last couple of years. But no, I think, yeah,
• 28:35
  Speaker 1: I think they lose. I don't think it's maybe as
• 28:39
  Speaker 1: bad of a loss as what you've predicted. Maybe it's
• 28:42
  Speaker 1: a little closer. But I think the Bears might still
• 28:45
  Speaker 1: be one of the teams to be in the NFC
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: North this year. I think they've got some good momentum
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: going into the season. I haven't really heard much in
• 28:54
  Speaker 1: terms of like injuries or negative things coming out of
• 28:58
  Speaker 1: training camp for them.
• 28:59
  Speaker 2: So yep, yeah, to that point, I think this is
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: gonna be at least the third year in a row,
• 29:04
  Speaker 2: fourth year in a row that the North is a
• 29:07
  Speaker 2: tough division. I think top down, it's gonna be very competitive,
• 29:11
  Speaker 2: and even the worst team the division, like the Lions are,
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: it's still going to be tough to beat for the
• 29:20
  Speaker 2: rest of the league. The Vikings aren't gonna have any
• 29:21
  Speaker 2: trouble with the Lions this year. But anyways, my kids
• 29:25
  Speaker 2: also said it was a loss, but my wife predicted
• 29:28
  Speaker 2: a win.
• 29:28
  Speaker 1: All right, there we go.
• 29:31
  Speaker 2: There we go. She's she's like me one and one.
• 29:34
  Speaker 2: All right, Evan coins up it is, that's that's heads,
• 29:42
  Speaker 2: that's a win. The coin is very nice to us
• 29:46
  Speaker 2: so far. It's gonna take a turn, though probably.
• 29:50
  Speaker 1: She actually does.
• 29:51
  Speaker 2: Seriously, I'm still getting used to.
• 29:57
  Speaker 1: You're still getting used to MacBook World over here.
• 29:59
  Speaker 2: I just you know, the keyboard is a little bit
• 30:01
  Speaker 2: different for me.
• 30:01
  Speaker 1: It is all right.
• 30:03
  Speaker 2: Week three the Vikings, second week of that little road
• 30:09
  Speaker 2: trip here, they travel to Tampa Bay three h five game.
• 30:15
  Speaker 2: Similar reasons that I said the Vikings would lose to
• 30:18
  Speaker 2: the Bears in Week two. I think this is a
• 30:20
  Speaker 2: second straight loss. The Vikings is gonna lose twenty eight
• 30:23
  Speaker 2: to seventeen something like that, and it's just gonna be
• 30:26
  Speaker 2: chalked up to growing pains and trying to figure things out.
• 30:31
  Speaker 2: I think Kevin O'Connell, to his credit, is not one
• 30:35
  Speaker 2: to immediately bench anybody. So even if these two games
• 30:38
  Speaker 2: are something that Vikings fans think like, oh, Kyler through
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: two interceptions, so he needs to be benched, I think
• 30:45
  Speaker 2: it's one of those we just need to live through
• 30:47
  Speaker 2: it a little bit. And there's gonna be losses that
• 30:51
  Speaker 2: this is not an undefeated team that the Vikings are
• 30:55
  Speaker 2: suiting up this year. But that's okay. Every Super Bowl
• 30:59
  Speaker 2: winner has lost again except for one, so we'll be okay.
• 31:03
  Speaker 2: But I do think this is a second straight loss
• 31:05
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings.
• 31:06
  Speaker 1: I think this is a win. I don't really think
• 31:10
  Speaker 1: that the Bucks are too much to be worried about.
• 31:16
  Speaker 1: I know, didn't something just happen with Tampa Bay. Didn't
• 31:21
  Speaker 1: they bring in a quarterback or something that.
• 31:23
  Speaker 2: I mean, Baker has publicly like ended the renegotiations.
• 31:28
  Speaker 1: For maybe that's it was, so so I think there's
• 31:31
  Speaker 1: some drama there, and I think that will kind of
• 31:34
  Speaker 1: affect some things. There's always drama with Baker Mayfield. I mean,
• 31:40
  Speaker 1: that's just kind of who he is. But yeah, I
• 31:44
  Speaker 1: don't know. I don't know that the Bucks are super
• 31:47
  Speaker 1: concerning to me as a team. Baker is a good player,
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: for sure, but he'll talk trash, he'll try to win.
• 31:54
  Speaker 1: But the Buccaneers, what they've proven basically since Tom Brady
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: left Tampa Bay was they're not gonna really make a
• 32:03
  Speaker 1: whole lot of noise until the last five or six
• 32:06
  Speaker 1: games of the season. They're gonna lose a bunch and
• 32:08
  Speaker 1: people are gonna count them out, and then all of
• 32:10
  Speaker 1: a sudden they're gonna come on hot at the end
• 32:11
  Speaker 1: of the season. Nobody ever seems like they want to
• 32:14
  Speaker 1: win the NFC South anyways, its divisions in recent Yeah,
• 32:18
  Speaker 1: it's always like, all right, I guess you can win it. No,
• 32:21
  Speaker 1: why don't you win it instead?
• 32:23
  Speaker 3: Oh?
• 32:23
  Speaker 1: Man, I don't know if I can, and so I
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: feel like it's going to be a similar situation this year.
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: I just don't know that any of those teams have
• 32:33
  Speaker 1: made a lot of gains. I don't think very highly
• 32:36
  Speaker 1: of the Saints or the Panthers. I think the Bucks
• 32:41
  Speaker 1: are probably the best team in the division, but I
• 32:43
  Speaker 1: still think they're fairly mediocre. Sure, yeah, all right, so
• 32:47
  Speaker 1: you're saying it's a win.
• 32:48
  Speaker 2: Yep.
• 32:49
  Speaker 1: I say it's a win. My wife says it's a win.
• 32:52
  Speaker 1: My kids said it's a loss.
• 32:55
  Speaker 2: Yeah, my wife said the Buccaneers to a win, and
• 32:59
  Speaker 2: so do my kids. So I'm the only medici in
• 33:00
  Speaker 2: that said loss.
• 33:02
  Speaker 1: All right, you're on coin flipping duty here.
• 33:07
  Speaker 2: Heads again. That's three in a row for the coin.
• 33:10
  Speaker 1: Three and oh for the Vikes. I think it. Correct
• 33:15
  Speaker 1: me if I'm wrong. I'm pretty sure there was a
• 33:17
  Speaker 1: guy that coin flipped every game for some team and
• 33:21
  Speaker 1: published it before the season, so it was authentic and
• 33:25
  Speaker 1: the coin predicted every single game. Correct.
• 33:27
  Speaker 2: I think you've that was like your I think, yeah,
• 33:30
  Speaker 2: that aspiration for having that, that was the whole reason
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: we started doing it was I watched that right before
• 33:37
  Speaker 2: the very first pick them episode we ever did, and
• 33:39
  Speaker 2: we've been doing it ever since. Yeah, but this is
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: at least the third episode, the fourth? Is it the fourth?
• 33:44
  Speaker 1: Nice? All right?
• 33:45
  Speaker 2: I've I think I've gone first every time. For the
• 33:49
  Speaker 2: home game in Week four against the Miami Dolphins, what do.
• 33:53
  Speaker 1: You think, Yeah, I think that's a win. I think
• 33:55
  Speaker 1: this is an easy win. I think it's this is
• 33:59
  Speaker 1: maybe the coming out party for the Vikings. I think
• 34:04
  Speaker 1: they might struggle maybe, you know, I've I've said to
• 34:08
  Speaker 1: this point going into the game with the Dolphins there
• 34:10
  Speaker 1: two and one. You know, I think one of those
• 34:14
  Speaker 1: wins is a struggling win. It could be a struggle
• 34:18
  Speaker 1: to win against Tampa Bay, could be a struggle to
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: win against Green Bay. I don't know, but I think
• 34:25
  Speaker 1: one of those wins will will come at a razor
• 34:28
  Speaker 1: thin margin and it'll be one of those wins that's
• 34:31
  Speaker 1: just like, man, they earned that, you know. I don't
• 34:35
  Speaker 1: think that'll be the case for the Dolphins new head
• 34:38
  Speaker 1: coach this year in Miami and just they have to
• 34:44
  Speaker 1: be arguably the worst team in the league. They're still
• 34:48
  Speaker 1: hanging on to two ataga Iloa. They're not.
• 34:51
  Speaker 2: No he signed where did the Falcons he? He is
• 34:56
  Speaker 2: probably gonna start over Michael Pennix, the other now benched
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: first round pick of the twenty twenty four That.
• 35:03
  Speaker 1: Makes my pick against the Falcons later in the season
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: even better. I didn't know that. I don't really paid
• 35:08
  Speaker 1: attention to it.
• 35:09
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but so their quarterback is the backup from Green
• 35:13
  Speaker 2: Bay the last couple.
• 35:14
  Speaker 1: Of years, as at least, No, that was.
• 35:17
  Speaker 2: The Falcons quarterback for a while.
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: Way behind that.
• 35:19
  Speaker 2: No, the Dolphins signed get me another beer, Malik Willis
• 35:25
  Speaker 2: in the offseason. Okay, I'm pretty sure that's who it was.
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: Well, anyways, new quarterback, new coach. I don't think there's
• 35:32
  Speaker 1: a ton of hope there in Miami right now. They
• 35:37
  Speaker 1: I feel like they've wasted a lot of money. They've
• 35:39
  Speaker 1: been in kind of cap hell for a while. So
• 35:43
  Speaker 1: I'm just I'm not worried about Miami at all, and
• 35:45
  Speaker 1: I carefully you're gonna.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Spill again, I know it's oh man, Yeah, to your point,
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: I think the Dolphins twenty twenty six dead cap number
• 35:54
  Speaker 2: is more than the entire cost of the current minnesot
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: To Twins roster.
• 36:01
  Speaker 1: Yeah I remember saying something like that. So anyways, not
• 36:04
  Speaker 1: to drag this on too long, but the Vikings will
• 36:08
  Speaker 1: beat the Dolphins easily at home in Week four. It
• 36:11
  Speaker 1: will be I think, like I said the coming out party,
• 36:15
  Speaker 1: I think a lot of people will be optimistic about
• 36:18
  Speaker 1: the Vikings after that game.
• 36:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah. I couldn't agree more so much so that this
• 36:23
  Speaker 2: game for me is my lock to win. It's the
• 36:27
  Speaker 2: first lock that I think either of us have had
• 36:30
  Speaker 2: so far.
• 36:31
  Speaker 1: Oh I forgot to do those.
• 36:32
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, Well the way you're talking, I mean, there's
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: nothing saying we can't have the same lock. But yeah,
• 36:38
  Speaker 2: this is a win for me. It's the lock of
• 36:40
  Speaker 2: the season to win. And again I agree with you hatedly.
• 36:45
  Speaker 2: The Vikings are gonna kick some booty. They're gonna win
• 36:49
  Speaker 2: this handedly. It's gonna be a shutout, I predict, and
• 36:53
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be at least twenty four to nothing,
• 36:56
  Speaker 2: if not more. I think this is gonna be there
• 36:59
  Speaker 2: you go trying to find the the emoji. There you
• 37:02
  Speaker 2: found it. For me, I think this is gonna be
• 37:05
  Speaker 2: the the true turning point game for anyone who is
• 37:11
  Speaker 2: not fully sold on this team or fully sold on
• 37:14
  Speaker 2: Kyler Murray. Yet, this is gonna be a feel good game,
• 37:17
  Speaker 2: and it's it's gonna be a lot of fun, all right.
• 37:20
  Speaker 1: I added my lock to this one as well, because
• 37:23
  Speaker 1: I did forget to put my locks down. We're just
• 37:28
  Speaker 1: gonna call it. It's a lock. It's a lock to
• 37:30
  Speaker 1: win for all the reasons I said, for all the
• 37:32
  Speaker 1: reasons you said, coin, here we go.
• 37:37
  Speaker 2: Oh is it the first loss? That is the first los.
• 37:41
  Speaker 1: It wasn't a great flip, but it flipped, and it
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: didn't go and flipped. It flipped, So the coin predicts
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: a loss. My family all predicted wins, so win for
• 37:55
  Speaker 1: my wife, win for my kids.
• 37:57
  Speaker 2: And my wife predicted to win. My kids predicted the
• 38:01
  Speaker 2: loss against the Dolphins. Really yeah, but I think they
• 38:05
  Speaker 2: just your kids. They don't fully know what they're doing.
• 38:10
  Speaker 2: Although it's important to note right now, so far me
• 38:14
  Speaker 2: and your kids have the same selections.
• 38:17
  Speaker 1: So oh that is interesting. Win, loss, loss, win, Your
• 38:22
  Speaker 1: kids are in line with the coin so far, and
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: and you no, I'm win all right.
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: Week five, the Vikings go to New Orleans to play
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: the Saints, another NFC South team I think, and I
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: don't know, maybe you can correct me. I feel like
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'm a little oblivious to the Saints right now. They
• 38:47
  Speaker 2: may be the most well put together NFC South team
• 38:50
  Speaker 2: as it sits right now. I think Kellen Moore is
• 38:54
  Speaker 2: gonna be a good coach in the league. I think
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: they their season last year wasn't over the top or anything,
• 39:01
  Speaker 2: but they surprise some people. I think Tyler Shug is
• 39:07
  Speaker 2: at their quarterback.
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: Shook shook.
• 39:13
  Speaker 2: S h o U g H or something like that.
• 39:15
  Speaker 2: I think he's he's better than advertised. But even saying
• 39:21
  Speaker 2: all that, I do you think it'll be a close
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: game and I think the Vikings are gonna end up
• 39:25
  Speaker 2: losing this game to the Saints. I have twenty four
• 39:29
  Speaker 2: to seventeen, so a close game, but still you gotta
• 39:32
  Speaker 2: lose some Yeah.
• 39:34
  Speaker 1: Admittedly, you know, if you heard me talk about the Dolphins,
• 39:39
  Speaker 1: I obviously don't know much about anything outside of the Vikings.
• 39:44
  Speaker 1: I still think the Saints are the Saints new head
• 39:48
  Speaker 1: coach kind of an unheard of quarterback. There's not a
• 39:51
  Speaker 1: lot of faith there from me in terms of what
• 39:58
  Speaker 1: the Saints can do, and I think the Vikings will
• 40:01
  Speaker 1: ride the momentum out of that Dolphins game the week before.
• 40:04
  Speaker 1: I know it's a road trip, but it's a Sunday
• 40:06
  Speaker 1: noon game. There's no reason in my mind that the
• 40:11
  Speaker 1: Vikings lose that game. I think they'll be just fine.
• 40:13
  Speaker 2: I could see it again. It's not like I predicted
• 40:16
  Speaker 2: the Vikings would get blown out, but I mean, yeah,
• 40:19
  Speaker 2: I think to me, and maybe this gives a little
• 40:22
  Speaker 2: peek into the rest of my season. I think that
• 40:25
  Speaker 2: the first handful of games, it's gonna be up and down.
• 40:28
  Speaker 2: It's gonna be rough. Nobody's going to be predicting the
• 40:32
  Speaker 2: Vikings to be one of the best teams in the league,
• 40:34
  Speaker 2: even if they do win a few games after, you know,
• 40:37
  Speaker 2: the first five or six games of the season.
• 40:38
  Speaker 1: But just let me point this out. That's two thirds
• 40:43
  Speaker 1: foam so far so far. Let it die down a
• 40:45
  Speaker 1: little bit. That's just crazy. That's a very foamy beer.
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I like it though.
• 40:49
  Speaker 1: I like it's really good. All right.
• 40:52
  Speaker 2: Week six is a bye and I think it's the
• 40:54
  Speaker 2: second man, I think we haven't done that yet so far.
• 40:58
  Speaker 2: Forget the coin tails. The coin predicts a second Street loss.
• 41:05
  Speaker 1: You did predict the coin gets a little streaky from
• 41:08
  Speaker 1: time to time, Well not three and twelve, three and two.
• 41:13
  Speaker 2: There we go, there we go. So coin said loss,
• 41:17
  Speaker 2: I said loss. You said win against the Saints. Week
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: six is a bye and like I said, I think
• 41:23
  Speaker 2: it's the second or third year in a row and
• 41:25
  Speaker 2: the Vikings have had a Week six by which is interesting.
• 41:30
  Speaker 2: I wonder how players feel about that.
• 41:32
  Speaker 1: It's the third year in a row. As if you.
• 41:33
  Speaker 2: Said, well, second or third, I can't remember the third.
• 41:38
  Speaker 2: As a fan, what do you what do you think
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: about a somewhat early season by Uh, for me, it's
• 41:44
  Speaker 2: it's okay because we're still you know, in the midst
• 41:48
  Speaker 2: of the full on season. There's still a lot of
• 41:50
  Speaker 2: football to watch, and sometimes a bye week can be
• 41:53
  Speaker 2: a little refreshing. Like sometimes it's boring and I wish
• 41:57
  Speaker 2: the Vikings were playing, But also sometimes it's like I
• 42:00
  Speaker 2: don't have to care this week, Like I can just
• 42:02
  Speaker 2: watch football and you're about my fantasy team, you know,
• 42:05
  Speaker 2: So what do you think? Do you do you think
• 42:07
  Speaker 2: that way or I'm alone?
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: It's fine. I kind of wish for a later bye
• 42:12
  Speaker 1: just because it helps with the the injuries and such,
• 42:18
  Speaker 1: get an extra week to kind of recover. If you
• 42:21
  Speaker 1: look back to what was it.
• 42:26
  Speaker 2: Twenty twenty two.
• 42:28
  Speaker 1: No, No, maybe I'm wrong. No, the thing I was
• 42:34
  Speaker 1: thinking of isn't true. So it's fine.
• 42:37
  Speaker 2: But I don't know.
• 42:39
  Speaker 1: I don't think teams look too much into their bye week.
• 42:44
  Speaker 1: I think they're just like, okay, cool, that's when our
• 42:47
  Speaker 1: off week is. It's a long season. They all just
• 42:50
  Speaker 1: kind of gear up for it the same way, and
• 42:52
  Speaker 1: there's maybe a slight advantage or disadvantage to an earlier
• 42:56
  Speaker 1: later by, depending on how you look at it. But
• 43:00
  Speaker 1: at the end of the day, it is what it is.
• 43:02
  Speaker 1: This is our third year in a row with a
• 43:03
  Speaker 1: week six by, make the most of it.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so all right, after the bye week seven, the
• 43:10
  Speaker 2: Vikings host the Colts. We could probably fact check this,
• 43:15
  Speaker 2: but I don't really want to. I want to say
• 43:17
  Speaker 2: the last time the Colts visited Minnesota was the biggest
• 43:25
  Speaker 2: comeback in NFL history. I might be wrong on that,
• 43:30
  Speaker 2: but that was two I don't know the last time.
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: I should have looked this up. I wonder if I
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: can quickly look this up, that might teacher.
• 43:41
  Speaker 1: So yeah, if a friend of the show, Brian wants
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: to come watch with us and then leave.
• 43:46
  Speaker 2: At least the first half.
• 43:47
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm fine with that.
• 43:49
  Speaker 2: Oh I'm wrong. So twenty twenty two, and we've definitely
• 43:52
  Speaker 2: done this before because I've looked up this exact web
• 43:54
  Speaker 2: page before. Twenty twenty two was the greatest comeback in
• 43:57
  Speaker 2: NFL history. Vikings beat the Colts thirty nine, thirty six
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: and overtime. And then in twenty twenty four, the Colts
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: visited Minnesota again, which is probably the last time we
• 44:09
  Speaker 2: talked about this, and the Vikings won twenty one thirteen.
• 44:11
  Speaker 2: So third time or a second time since the greatest
• 44:16
  Speaker 2: comeback that the Colts are coming to Minnesota. What do
• 44:20
  Speaker 2: you think of who's gonna win this one?
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings win this one. And I did
• 44:26
  Speaker 1: a little bit of research here. I went back to
• 44:30
  Speaker 1: all of Kevin O'Connell's games post buy and I think
• 44:35
  Speaker 1: for a while there and maybe friend of the show
• 44:37
  Speaker 1: Dustin Baker turned me onto this. For a while there,
• 44:40
  Speaker 1: Kevin O'Connell was doing really well after the bye. I
• 44:44
  Speaker 1: think he in his first two years he was two
• 44:46
  Speaker 1: and zero okay after the bye, and then the last
• 44:50
  Speaker 1: two seasons he went oh and two after the buye,
• 44:54
  Speaker 1: so he's an even two and two now in his career.
• 44:58
  Speaker 1: After the bye, I think he's going to go back
• 45:01
  Speaker 1: on the right side and get back into the win
• 45:04
  Speaker 1: column and he start to get get back to increasing
• 45:10
  Speaker 1: that average again. All right, I think he wins five.
• 45:13
  Speaker 1: They're five and one after this for.
• 45:16
  Speaker 2: You, I agree. I think it's going to be a
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: win for the Vikings. I think it's going to be
• 45:20
  Speaker 2: a pretty smooth win for the Vikings. I think Daniel
• 45:24
  Speaker 2: Jones when he was playing well last year for the Colts,
• 45:27
  Speaker 2: he was playing really well and the Colts were pretty good.
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: He is coming off an achilles tear and everything about
• 45:34
  Speaker 2: you know, everything in the news says that Daniel Jones
• 45:36
  Speaker 2: is fully healthy and ready to go, and I'll believe
• 45:39
  Speaker 2: it totally and definitely by week seven he should be
• 45:43
  Speaker 2: definitely good to go because that's about a year out
• 45:45
  Speaker 2: from his his not quite a year, but almost a
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: year from his Achilles tear. We'll know more about this
• 45:51
  Speaker 2: Colts team between now and then, but as of right now,
• 45:55
  Speaker 2: I just think the only sticking point for me for
• 45:59
  Speaker 2: the Vikings on whether they're a good team this year
• 46:01
  Speaker 2: or a bad team is the quarterback. And if you're
• 46:05
  Speaker 2: a Kyler fan and you think he's gonna play up
• 46:07
  Speaker 2: to his ceiling. Then this is gonna be a really
• 46:10
  Speaker 2: good team. And yeah, I think coming off to buy Fresh,
• 46:15
  Speaker 2: ready to go, they've worked out the kinks that I'm
• 46:20
  Speaker 2: predicting there there will be in the early season. Vikings
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: are going to move past the Colts thirty four to
• 46:26
  Speaker 2: fourteen something like that.
• 46:27
  Speaker 1: Okay, to this point without flipping the coin, yet, you
• 46:33
  Speaker 1: have the worst record so far. The rest of us
• 46:36
  Speaker 1: in our family, myself included, are either four and two
• 46:40
  Speaker 1: or five in one. Yeah, ye're three and three.
• 46:42
  Speaker 2: You gotta be a little real realistic, and I think
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: this team will struggle, but again, I think those struggles
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: are going to happen early and they're gonna be resilient enough.
• 46:51
  Speaker 2: They also don't have a two week stretch where they're
• 46:55
  Speaker 2: abroad this year.
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: True, that is a big factor. All right, Week seven
• 46:59
  Speaker 1: coin flip here we go. Well that was where what
• 47:03
  Speaker 1: were we doing?
• 47:03
  Speaker 2: Oh? No tales? All right? So the coin predictions with you? Yeah,
• 47:11
  Speaker 2: well the coin predicted three straight wins and then three
• 47:14
  Speaker 2: straight losses. So the coin has the team at three
• 47:19
  Speaker 2: and three. And that's why you said it's with me.
• 47:20
  Speaker 2: I have the team at three and three. Oh no,
• 47:23
  Speaker 2: I know, there we go.
• 47:24
  Speaker 1: That was weird.
• 47:25
  Speaker 2: Okay. Yeah, so my wife against the Colts, predicted a
• 47:30
  Speaker 2: win for the Vikings, giving her record a five and one,
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: and my kids predicted a win as well, giving them
• 47:36
  Speaker 2: a four and two record.
• 47:38
  Speaker 1: All right, here we go Week eight, the Vikings travel
• 47:41
  Speaker 1: to Detroit. We mentioned streaks. For me, this is the
• 47:48
  Speaker 1: beginning of a streak.
• 47:49
  Speaker 2: Okay, And.
• 47:52
  Speaker 1: I don't like saying this, and I know you've already
• 47:56
  Speaker 1: kind of hinted at the fact that, oh, the Vikings
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: won't have any problems with the Lions, But I still
• 48:02
  Speaker 1: think the NFC North is one of the toughest divisions
• 48:05
  Speaker 1: in football, arguably the toughest division in the NFL this year. Yeah,
• 48:11
  Speaker 1: and it has been for the last couple of years now.
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: I think the Vikings lose this game. I'm not, like
• 48:17
  Speaker 1: I said, I'm not excited to say that, but I
• 48:22
  Speaker 1: think it's a loss. I've been predicting a five and
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: one record to this point, so it's not the worst
• 48:32
  Speaker 1: thing in the world. But like I said, this is
• 48:33
  Speaker 1: the beginning of a streak for me.
• 48:35
  Speaker 2: Oh oh no, yeah, well, it's also the beginning of
• 48:38
  Speaker 2: a streak for me. I think the Vikings for the
• 48:43
  Speaker 2: second straight season, will not have any trouble with the Lions.
• 48:46
  Speaker 2: I think the Lions that we grew to know surprisingly
• 48:50
  Speaker 2: for a couple of years there are dead and gone.
• 48:53
  Speaker 2: I think their window has closed real tight, and they're
• 48:58
  Speaker 2: still reaching for the success that they almost had. I
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: think we're looking at another little stretch of the Lions
• 49:05
  Speaker 2: being bad, well bad compared to the rest of the division.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings win this one against the Lions.
• 49:13
  Speaker 2: I think it'll be pretty handedly twenty eight to seven,
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: because at some point, I think we're gonna see Brian
• 49:21
  Speaker 2: Floors defense take over games for stretches to the point
• 49:27
  Speaker 2: that it doesn't matter what the offense does, similar to
• 49:30
  Speaker 2: what it was like in the Christmas Day game against
• 49:33
  Speaker 2: the Lions the last time they played this, Brian Flores
• 49:36
  Speaker 2: defense is really going to be the star of the
• 49:39
  Speaker 2: team and the reason the Vikings win the games that
• 49:42
  Speaker 2: they do win this year.
• 49:44
  Speaker 1: All Right, my family, my wife predicted a loss, My
• 49:48
  Speaker 1: kids predicted a loss.
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: Mine were the same. My wife and kids all predicted
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: a loss against the Lions.
• 49:53
  Speaker 1: So you're the sole win predictor until you flip the coin,
• 49:58
  Speaker 1: and then we'll see if you're truly by yourself.
• 50:03
  Speaker 2: The coin has predicted now four straight losses or predicted
• 50:07
  Speaker 2: a loss against the Lions. So the coin after the
• 50:10
  Speaker 2: Lions game has the Vikings at three and four.
• 50:14
  Speaker 1: If that pans out, if the Vikings go three and
• 50:17
  Speaker 1: zero and then lose four in a row, then people
• 50:20
  Speaker 1: will be like, get Kyler out of there. If he's
• 50:23
  Speaker 1: still the quarterback at that point, Like four straight losses
• 50:27
  Speaker 1: will be enough to put most Vikings fans over that edge.
• 50:29
  Speaker 1: Although I mean, we don't have strong stomachs in Minnesota.
• 50:32
  Speaker 2: If the Vikings play out the season that the coin
• 50:35
  Speaker 2: is saying, it would take like a naked eye to
• 50:41
  Speaker 2: see that Kyler was the reason for those losses. For
• 50:46
  Speaker 2: Koc to make the switch, he's he's pretty slow to
• 50:50
  Speaker 2: make the switch. And you can respect that, you can
• 50:54
  Speaker 2: hate that. I think it would take quite a bit
• 50:57
  Speaker 2: for Koc to bend really anybody. So we'll see what happens.
• 51:04
  Speaker 2: We'll see if that's the case. Hopefully that's not the case.
• 51:07
  Speaker 1: All right. I mentioned that the loss of the Lions
• 51:11
  Speaker 1: would start a streak. The Vikings will host the Bills
• 51:14
  Speaker 1: week nine. I think that's also a loss. Dang Man
• 51:19
  Speaker 1: and I'm just getting started, unfortunately, but I think it's
• 51:24
  Speaker 1: a loss. What is that? That's early November. I think
• 51:30
  Speaker 1: the Bills have a lot of momentum. Jared Allen is
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: still an elite quarterback. Jared Allen, Josh Josh Allen.
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: Jared Allen's the Hall of Fame defensive.
• 51:41
  Speaker 1: J Allen, the guy that starts with j Josh Allen.
• 51:46
  Speaker 1: He's still an elite quarterback. And I think he's got
• 51:51
  Speaker 1: a pretty decent cast, honestly, Like, you don't need a
• 51:53
  Speaker 1: ton of name brand players around you if you're a
• 51:57
  Speaker 1: good enough quarterback, and I think he's proven that. And
• 52:01
  Speaker 1: I think that guy wants to win at all costs,
• 52:04
  Speaker 1: Like he wants a super Bowl more than anybody, and
• 52:07
  Speaker 1: probably honestly deserves a super Bowl more than a lot
• 52:11
  Speaker 1: of people. I think he's a good player, and I
• 52:12
  Speaker 1: think he's but I.
• 52:13
  Speaker 2: Think you and I deserve a super Bowl more than I.
• 52:16
  Speaker 1: Don't disagree with you, but I can feel for Bills
• 52:19
  Speaker 1: fans a little bit. And I'm not saying that. I like,
• 52:21
  Speaker 1: I want the Bills to win at the expense of
• 52:23
  Speaker 1: the Vikings, but I think the Bills are going to
• 52:27
  Speaker 1: be playing some really good football this year. They've got
• 52:29
  Speaker 1: a new stadium that just opened.
• 52:31
  Speaker 2: Seen the criticism.
• 52:32
  Speaker 1: I've heard some critiques, but I mean they still got
• 52:37
  Speaker 1: time to iron out some of those details. No stadium
• 52:40
  Speaker 1: is perfect. US Bank Stadium is pretty darn near perfect.
• 52:45
  Speaker 1: They should have taken some notes from whoever that architect was.
• 52:50
  Speaker 1: But I still think there's gonna be a lot of
• 52:52
  Speaker 1: momentum there. Bill's mafia. They're a crazy fan base, they
• 52:56
  Speaker 1: love their team, and yeah, I don't know. I think
• 53:01
  Speaker 1: they're going to just be a better team than the Vikings.
• 53:04
  Speaker 1: They may be. They could be the best team in
• 53:07
  Speaker 1: the AFC. Bills.
• 53:09
  Speaker 2: That's that's a bold statement. And we will know if
• 53:11
  Speaker 2: you're right or wrong here within what five or six months.
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings are going to win this I
• 53:17
  Speaker 2: think they're gonna win it by a full touchdown. It's
• 53:20
  Speaker 2: gonna be like thirty one twenty four, something like that.
• 53:23
  Speaker 2: I don't disagree with you. I think the Bills are
• 53:26
  Speaker 2: a good team and they will continue to be a
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: good team this year. But for whatever reason, the fates
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: have decided that the Vikings beat the Bills. I'm thinking
• 53:37
  Speaker 2: of probably the we already talked about the greatest comeback
• 53:40
  Speaker 2: in NFL history. But I think in the same season,
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: we saw the craziest game, at least in Vikings history,
• 53:48
  Speaker 2: when they beat the Bills, and part of it was
• 53:50
  Speaker 2: like a botched field down. Oh my godness, that one
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: of the greatest catches of Jefferson's career, a crazy fumble
• 54:00
  Speaker 2: recovery for a touchdown. But by I think Eric Kendricks,
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: I've probably.
• 54:05
  Speaker 1: Watched that end of game sequence and they've clipped it
• 54:09
  Speaker 1: up so it's a lot shorter. You don't have to
• 54:11
  Speaker 1: watch the whole game, but I've watched, like I've watched
• 54:15
  Speaker 1: the who was it Kevin Burkhardt, Was he the CBS
• 54:20
  Speaker 1: announcer that day? Whoever that was. I've watched that probably
• 54:24
  Speaker 1: a dozen times. And then I've also watched the Paul
• 54:27
  Speaker 1: Allen overdub of that whole series, like, you know, he's
• 54:32
  Speaker 1: no signal, no signal, Ah, they said he didn't get it.
• 54:36
  Speaker 1: They said he didn't get it, you lucky suckers. I've
• 54:40
  Speaker 1: watched that probably at least twenty times.
• 54:42
  Speaker 2: And now I'm gonna watch that tonight too. But yeah,
• 54:44
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings beat the Bills this year if
• 54:46
  Speaker 2: they're gonna be a good team. They have to win
• 54:49
  Speaker 2: some games that are tough. It'll be a tough game,
• 54:52
  Speaker 2: but yeah, I think the Vikings will. I'll do it
• 54:55
  Speaker 2: for for me, the third win in a row. So
• 54:57
  Speaker 2: so far, I've got them at five and three after
• 55:00
  Speaker 2: the Bills game.
• 55:01
  Speaker 1: Flip it, flip it for glory. It's a loss.
• 55:06
  Speaker 2: It's another loss. The coin has now predicted five straight losses,
• 55:11
  Speaker 2: and Vikings Twitter at least will be super pissed at
• 55:19
  Speaker 2: this point. People will be calling for Kevin O'Connell's head.
• 55:21
  Speaker 2: If they lose five straight games. It'll be a bleak
• 55:25
  Speaker 2: time for Vikings history, for Vikings fandom, which is crazy
• 55:29
  Speaker 2: because the coin then has predicted three and five. Three
• 55:33
  Speaker 2: and five teams can go on to make the playoffs sometimes,
• 55:35
  Speaker 2: so it's not all gloom and doom.
• 55:38
  Speaker 1: Well, I'm just gonna keep going first here, all right,
• 55:41
  Speaker 1: because I said I was going on a streak and
• 55:43
  Speaker 1: I wasn't kidding. The Vikings will travel to Green Bay
• 55:47
  Speaker 1: week ten. It's November fifteenth at this point, it'll be
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: the week before Thanksgiving, or I guess a week and
• 55:53
  Speaker 1: a half before Thanksgiving. This is a loss for me
• 55:57
  Speaker 1: and I think the Packers, although the Vikings will beat
• 56:01
  Speaker 1: them in Week one. Lafleur is a good coach, Jordan
• 56:07
  Speaker 1: loves a decent quarterback. The Packers will figure some stuff out.
• 56:11
  Speaker 1: The Packers will remain competitive in the NFC North. I
• 56:16
  Speaker 1: think part of their formula to being in that postseason
• 56:20
  Speaker 1: picture and potentially either winning the division or getting that
• 56:25
  Speaker 1: wild card will be winning divisional games, and this will
• 56:30
  Speaker 1: be one of them. And they're gonna the Packers are
• 56:32
  Speaker 1: gonna be licking their chops, I think, especially with the
• 56:35
  Speaker 1: Vikings coming in if I'm predicting correctly, with a few
• 56:40
  Speaker 1: losses already, they'll be ready to go. And so I
• 56:45
  Speaker 1: think that's a loss. I hate to say it, but.
• 56:49
  Speaker 2: Yeah, all right, well I disagree with you. I think
• 56:52
  Speaker 2: the Vikings win this one. For me, it's a pretty
• 56:55
  Speaker 2: decent win, seventeen to three something like that. Like I said,
• 57:00
  Speaker 2: I think this is going to be another show out
• 57:02
  Speaker 2: of the Flora's defense, and to give a little glimpse
• 57:06
  Speaker 2: of the rest of my season, I think the Flora's
• 57:10
  Speaker 2: defense is really this is where they're in the middle
• 57:14
  Speaker 2: of the turn where it's talking about how you know,
• 57:17
  Speaker 2: we might be talking about a Vikings defender winning defensive
• 57:20
  Speaker 2: Player of the year. We're going to be seeing the
• 57:23
  Speaker 2: Vikings defensive players winning like Defensive Player of the Month
• 57:28
  Speaker 2: or Player of the Week, stuff like that, just because
• 57:30
  Speaker 2: this Flora's defense is really going to start to shine
• 57:33
  Speaker 2: and we're going to be singing the praises of Caleb
• 57:36
  Speaker 2: Banks and Big Citrus and definitely Jalen Redmond by now.
• 57:42
  Speaker 2: So we may see some games where the Vikings don't
• 57:45
  Speaker 2: score a ton on offense, which that happens, but we're
• 57:49
  Speaker 2: definitely going to see a lot of games where the
• 57:51
  Speaker 2: defense doesn't give up many scores at all. We know
• 57:56
  Speaker 2: Kevin O'Connell's record when it comes to whether he is
• 58:00
  Speaker 2: break even or wins the turnover battle, and the defense
• 58:04
  Speaker 2: is obviously a huge part of that. I think it's
• 58:06
  Speaker 2: just gonna be a good defensive season, and this win
• 58:10
  Speaker 2: against the Packers is just gonna be another one where
• 58:12
  Speaker 2: we're talking about, Man, this was a good defensive game
• 58:15
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings, So win for me. My wife and
• 58:18
  Speaker 2: kids both said win as well.
• 58:20
  Speaker 1: My wife and kids also said a win. So I'm
• 58:22
  Speaker 1: gonna flip the coin here. I could be the standalone
• 58:25
  Speaker 1: loss in Week ten. Here we go.
• 58:32
  Speaker 2: Do we do we know yet?
• 58:34
  Speaker 1: We might have a we might have a streak buster here,
• 58:36
  Speaker 1: all right, what are we doing?
• 58:37
  Speaker 3: So?
• 58:39
  Speaker 2: Oh, all right, I thought again.
• 58:42
  Speaker 1: I got a peek out of the glimpse of my
• 58:44
  Speaker 1: like the corner of my eye, and I thought it
• 58:46
  Speaker 1: was a heads. It was not. It was a tails.
• 58:48
  Speaker 2: So the Coin's got the Vikings at three and six
• 58:50
  Speaker 2: after the Packers bikes.
• 58:52
  Speaker 1: That's terrible. Well, at least the coin and I are
• 58:55
  Speaker 1: kind of on the same way. All right. I'm gonna
• 58:58
  Speaker 1: keep going first because I mentioned a streak and I'm
• 59:02
  Speaker 1: not proud to say the streak continues. So, oh, I've
• 59:09
  Speaker 1: been doing this wrong. That's okay, I'll fix that later. Yeah,
• 59:14
  Speaker 1: this is a loss for the Vikings. The Vikings will
• 59:17
  Speaker 1: travel to Mexico City actually to play the San Francisco
• 59:22
  Speaker 1: forty nine Ers. I don't know who technically the home
• 59:27
  Speaker 1: game belongs to, but I'm pretty sure it's the forty
• 59:30
  Speaker 1: nine ers.
• 59:31
  Speaker 2: I think. So aren't losing a home game.
• 59:34
  Speaker 1: Yeah, otherwise the Vikings would have a ton of home games.
• 59:39
  Speaker 1: They'd have ten of them. So I think this is
• 59:42
  Speaker 1: a loss. I think the forty nine ers are going
• 59:43
  Speaker 1: to be a pretty good team again, as long as
• 59:46
  Speaker 1: their guys are healthy, and I don't know. These international
• 59:51
  Speaker 1: games are tough for the Vikings historically, and I don't know.
• 59:58
  Speaker 1: Maybe the only redeeming factor is is that it's the
• 1:00:00
  Speaker 1: same time zone yep for the Vikings, whereas the forty
• 1:00:04
  Speaker 1: nine Ers will be a little bit out of routine
• 1:00:06
  Speaker 1: that way. But I'm predicting a loss here and that'll
• 1:00:09
  Speaker 1: put the Vikings at five and five and a four
• 1:00:12
  Speaker 1: game losing streak.
• 1:00:15
  Speaker 2: So that would be that'd be tough. That'd be a
• 1:00:17
  Speaker 2: tough time to be a Vikings fan. I've got to win.
• 1:00:19
  Speaker 2: I've got the Vikings beating the forty nine Ers like
• 1:00:22
  Speaker 2: thirty one to ten. This would be another good defensive game,
• 1:00:26
  Speaker 2: but obviously another good offensive game. I think the Vikings
• 1:00:31
  Speaker 2: will be missing out on the pressure of being I
• 1:00:35
  Speaker 2: really think they're the away game, missing out on the
• 1:00:38
  Speaker 2: pressure of being the home team at an international game.
• 1:00:42
  Speaker 2: And yeah, they're still traveling and probably traveling a little
• 1:00:45
  Speaker 2: bit further than the forty nine ers team are, but
• 1:00:48
  Speaker 2: the forty nine Ers team there's a little bit more.
• 1:00:51
  Speaker 2: They're a little bit more to worry about when you're
• 1:00:53
  Speaker 2: the home team in an international game. So yeah, to that,
• 1:01:00
  Speaker 2: it's just to the Vikings, it's just another away game.
• 1:01:03
  Speaker 2: Probably a little more you know, pop and circumstance. Yeah,
• 1:01:08
  Speaker 2: you know, a couple more events that the players have
• 1:01:10
  Speaker 2: to go to, maybe, but still it's just another game.
• 1:01:16
  Speaker 2: They're in full season mode by then. Yeah, this is
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: this is gonna be another win for the Vikings.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 1: Uh.
• 1:01:22
  Speaker 2: And for me. You keep saying you're on a streak.
• 1:01:25
  Speaker 2: I'm on a longer streak. You're on a big streak.
• 1:01:28
  Speaker 2: I've now predicted five straight wins and you're at four
• 1:01:31
  Speaker 2: straight losses. So, uh, let's see what the coin is at.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 2: Is it my turn?
• 1:01:39
  Speaker 1: Streakbuster?
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: The coin predicts a win. Nice?
• 1:01:46
  Speaker 1: Finally, after six losses, the coin has flipped the tables.
• 1:01:51
  Speaker 1: My how the turntables have turned? Uh? I would like
• 1:01:54
  Speaker 1: to add my wife dropped a little comment in here
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 1: on hers. She predicted a loss. My kids also predicted
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 1: a loss to the forty nine ers in Mexico City.
• 1:02:05
  Speaker 1: My wife said they might get distracted being in Mexico.
• 1:02:09
  Speaker 1: The margins are pretty strong. Yep, yep.
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: So well, we're talking about professionals here, Ravens. So I
• 1:02:15
  Speaker 2: don't know about that.
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 1: All right, I've gone first a lot. I'm gonna let
• 1:02:20
  Speaker 1: you go first for Week twelve.
• 1:02:22
  Speaker 2: Week twelve, the Vikings host the Falcons, the to a
• 1:02:26
  Speaker 2: tongue of I looa led Falcons. I didn't know that,
• 1:02:29
  Speaker 2: but not the Desmond Ridder. Did you remember? Desmond Ridder
• 1:02:32
  Speaker 2: was a Viking last year for a little bit.
• 1:02:34
  Speaker 1: Right vaguely. Maybe that's why his name came to I
• 1:02:37
  Speaker 1: don't know.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 3: So.
• 1:02:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Falcons come to Minnesota and the Vikings are
• 1:02:42
  Speaker 2: going to beat them. It's gonna be twenty seven seventeen.
• 1:02:46
  Speaker 2: I truly think, and this was my thoughts before the
• 1:02:52
  Speaker 2: QB one announcement, I truly think the Vikings will be
• 1:02:55
  Speaker 2: surprising a ton of people this year. I think this
• 1:02:58
  Speaker 2: is a playoff level team, a team that is talented,
• 1:03:04
  Speaker 2: unquestionably talented at every position except for the slight concerns
• 1:03:11
  Speaker 2: at quarterback and lo and behold, they just announced a
• 1:03:15
  Speaker 2: Pro Bowl level quarterback is going to be their QB
• 1:03:17
  Speaker 2: one this year. So the Vikings are going to beat
• 1:03:20
  Speaker 2: the Falcons. What I say, twenty seven seventeen, and the
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: only thing that can stop the Vikings this year is
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: maybe some injuries.
• 1:03:29
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, this is a win. I think this
• 1:03:33
  Speaker 1: is a much needed win for the Vikings after four
• 1:03:35
  Speaker 1: straight losses. Yeah so, And I don't know. I think
• 1:03:40
  Speaker 1: you look at those four games coming into this Falcons game,
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: they're tough ones. The Lions could be tough, The Bills,
• 1:03:47
  Speaker 1: I think will definitely be tough, The Packers at home
• 1:03:50
  Speaker 1: are always tough, and the Niners are going to be tough.
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: So I don't think I'm super far off in a
• 1:03:55
  Speaker 1: four game losing streak, but I'm happy to end it
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: knowing that the Falcons are just not a strong team,
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: and they're one of those NFC South teams that's just like,
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: I don't want to win the division. Why do you
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 1: want to win the division? Nobody wants to win the
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 1: NFC South.
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: It's just the only caveat and I kind of forgot
• 1:04:11
  Speaker 2: about it until right now. The Falcons did just hire
• 1:04:14
  Speaker 2: a new coach, so they're gonna look way different than
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 2: they have. Whether it's they're better or worse, they're gonna
• 1:04:20
  Speaker 2: look way different. So and their coach, my goodness, he
• 1:04:25
  Speaker 2: was the former Vikings offensive coordinator that was just with
• 1:04:28
  Speaker 2: the Browns for a few years. Why can't Kevin Stefanski,
• 1:04:32
  Speaker 2: who I truly think is a good coach in the league.
• 1:04:34
  Speaker 1: I think Stefanski is a good coach, but he proved
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 1: with the Browns that it just it doesn't happen like that,
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 1: you know, Like I think we all thought, like, oh man,
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 1: the Browns are going to be good now when he
• 1:04:46
  Speaker 1: left the Vikings to go there, and then they weren't.
• 1:04:49
  Speaker 1: And of course you've got like you've got all sorts
• 1:04:52
  Speaker 1: of personnel issues and big personalities, and then of course
• 1:04:56
  Speaker 1: you just have the history of the Browns. The Browns
• 1:04:59
  Speaker 1: are just a garbage organization. Actually they are a dumpster fire.
• 1:05:03
  Speaker 1: It's terrible. But I don't know. I don't think Stefanski
• 1:05:07
  Speaker 1: comes in and just turns things around in like one season.
• 1:05:13
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it might take him minute.
• 1:05:14
  Speaker 1: I mean, even Mike Rabel it took him.
• 1:05:17
  Speaker 2: Now, he was with New England for one year and
• 1:05:21
  Speaker 2: that was last year and they made the Super Bowl.
• 1:05:23
  Speaker 1: That's true. Now he's in hot water, though.
• 1:05:26
  Speaker 2: Well that's an off the field and I don't know
• 1:05:29
  Speaker 2: how hot the water is for him anymore, at least publicly.
• 1:05:32
  Speaker 2: And it seems like things have badgown anyways.
• 1:05:36
  Speaker 1: All right, is it hang on? We got to do
• 1:05:39
  Speaker 1: our family? Oh yeah, okay, my kids said a loss
• 1:05:44
  Speaker 1: and my wife said a win a.
• 1:05:48
  Speaker 2: And for the Falcons, my kids and wife both said win.
• 1:05:51
  Speaker 2: So after the Falcons game, I've got the Vikings at
• 1:05:55
  Speaker 2: eight and three. My wife has them at seven and four,
• 1:05:58
  Speaker 2: and my kids have them at seven and four. The coin,
• 1:06:02
  Speaker 2: I forget if it's me or you.
• 1:06:05
  Speaker 1: You me, me, me, me you.
• 1:06:08
  Speaker 2: The coin has a loss against the Falcons. So the
• 1:06:11
  Speaker 2: coin now has the Vikings at four and seven, which
• 1:06:15
  Speaker 2: is crazy. Hopefully that's not the case because at four
• 1:06:20
  Speaker 2: and seven after Week twelve, people are clamoring for firings
• 1:06:26
  Speaker 2: and cuts and trades and selling of the team like
• 1:06:30
  Speaker 2: that's it would be a dark time. That's I mean one, two, three, four, five, six,
• 1:06:39
  Speaker 2: seven losses out of eight games. If the coin is right, yeah,
• 1:06:44
  Speaker 2: that would just be crazy.
• 1:06:48
  Speaker 1: So on that note, moving on Week twelve, No, that
• 1:06:51
  Speaker 1: was Week twelve. Week thirteen, the Vikings will play the
• 1:06:54
  Speaker 1: Panthers at home. This is a good opportunity I think
• 1:06:57
  Speaker 1: for the Vikings to build a little momentum because they
• 1:06:59
  Speaker 1: have to two game home stretches Week twelve and thirteen
• 1:07:05
  Speaker 1: and then week fifteen Week sixteen where they're home and
• 1:07:10
  Speaker 1: I like that. One of them is a Sunday night game,
• 1:07:14
  Speaker 1: which we'll get to eventually. It's the home game in
• 1:07:16
  Speaker 1: week fifteen against the Lions. But other than that, they
• 1:07:20
  Speaker 1: are fairly normal games. This Panthers game is a three
• 1:07:25
  Speaker 1: twenty five kick, but that's fine. I think that's actually
• 1:07:29
  Speaker 1: maybe a little bit preferred. Yeah, for players. I think
• 1:07:32
  Speaker 1: they'd maybe rather play a little bit later than play
• 1:07:35
  Speaker 1: earlier in the day. I think this is a win.
• 1:07:37
  Speaker 1: I think the Panthers are just another kind of dumpster organization.
• 1:07:42
  Speaker 1: They had awful ownership and awful GM for a while.
• 1:07:46
  Speaker 1: It's going to take them a while to recover from that.
• 1:07:49
  Speaker 1: So yeah, I think the Vikings win this one pretty easily.
• 1:07:53
  Speaker 1: After a four game losing streak that I've predicted, they
• 1:07:57
  Speaker 1: bounce back at home and win a couple get back
• 1:07:59
  Speaker 1: into positive territory.
• 1:08:01
  Speaker 2: They're now seven and five. Your family, would they say so?
• 1:08:05
  Speaker 2: I don't think I've announced. I think the Vikings win
• 1:08:09
  Speaker 2: against the Panthers as well. This will be another feel
• 1:08:12
  Speaker 2: good game. The Vikings are gonna beat the Panthers something
• 1:08:16
  Speaker 2: like thirty eight to seven. Now, I do recognize the
• 1:08:18
  Speaker 2: Panthers went to the playoffs last year. They were I
• 1:08:22
  Speaker 2: believe the division winners out of that awful NFC South.
• 1:08:26
  Speaker 2: It was the first year that Bryce Young kind of
• 1:08:30
  Speaker 2: showed like, oh, this is what we're seeing when they
• 1:08:32
  Speaker 2: drafted him first overall. But even so, it's they still
• 1:08:37
  Speaker 2: are not great. It's just not It's not like they're
• 1:08:41
  Speaker 2: evil people in Carolina, but the organization just isn't run well.
• 1:08:46
  Speaker 2: They've needed an MVP level player to get anywhere in
• 1:08:49
  Speaker 2: cam Newton or you know other years. Yeah, this year
• 1:08:54
  Speaker 2: they may be good or bad. I don't know, but
• 1:08:56
  Speaker 2: at least in this game against the Vikings of Panthers
• 1:08:58
  Speaker 2: are gonna lose again. They're eight to seven, good offensive
• 1:09:02
  Speaker 2: and defensive game, and maybe those thirty eight points may
• 1:09:04
  Speaker 2: be helped by some defensive points as well. My wife said,
• 1:09:09
  Speaker 2: a win against the Panthers and my kids set a loss.
• 1:09:12
  Speaker 2: What's the coin?
• 1:09:13
  Speaker 1: Got the coin? Here? We go, Oh, no, it fell,
• 1:09:18
  Speaker 1: but it's heads. It's heads. It's under your chair, so
• 1:09:21
  Speaker 1: you're gonna have to get it.
• 1:09:22
  Speaker 2: I'll grab it. So the coin is starting to turn
• 1:09:25
  Speaker 2: a little bit, but it's still at five and seven
• 1:09:28
  Speaker 2: on the season. After the Panthers game.
• 1:09:30
  Speaker 1: All right, well you get the coin. Sorry, it's under
• 1:09:33
  Speaker 1: your chair. We move into Week fourteen, which is a
• 1:09:39
  Speaker 1: Thursday night game.
• 1:09:41
  Speaker 2: It's the only Thursday night game on the schedule, which
• 1:09:44
  Speaker 2: I'm more than okay with. Yep, I don't really prefer
• 1:09:47
  Speaker 2: Thursday night games.
• 1:09:48
  Speaker 1: No. I like the extended off week after the Thursday game.
• 1:09:53
  Speaker 1: But I don't like the short week because it's a
• 1:09:56
  Speaker 1: short week because they travel, because they traveled to New England,
• 1:10:01
  Speaker 1: who played in the Super Bowl last year. I think
• 1:10:03
  Speaker 1: the Vikings lose this game. I don't think it's a
• 1:10:07
  Speaker 1: tough loss. I think it's it'll be tough because it'll
• 1:10:11
  Speaker 1: be close. It'll it won't be an embarrassing loss. We'll
• 1:10:15
  Speaker 1: just say. But I think they lose this one. I
• 1:10:18
  Speaker 1: think your former Super Bowl runners up are going to
• 1:10:22
  Speaker 1: be a fairly decent team again this year.
• 1:10:25
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, absolutely, even though you just tried to say
• 1:10:28
  Speaker 2: that Rabel wasn't that great of a coach.
• 1:10:30
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, you've got to try to get an advantage somehow, right, Yep.
• 1:10:35
  Speaker 2: All right, So Evan, I agree with you. I think
• 1:10:38
  Speaker 2: this is going to be a loss for all the
• 1:10:40
  Speaker 2: same reasons you just said. Travel and primetime and December
• 1:10:48
  Speaker 2: in New England at night. It's there's gonna be a
• 1:10:52
  Speaker 2: lot of factors that aren't normally factors in an NFL game,
• 1:10:57
  Speaker 2: and again, you're not gonna win them all. So for me,
• 1:11:00
  Speaker 2: this is a loss and it's my lock to lose.
• 1:11:06
  Speaker 2: I just think there's some that you can look at
• 1:11:08
  Speaker 2: the schedule, and barring injury, which you can't predict, you
• 1:11:12
  Speaker 2: just know, Yeah, the Vikings are probably gonna lose this one,
• 1:11:15
  Speaker 2: even if after I picked what one, two, three, four, five, six,
• 1:11:19
  Speaker 2: seven straight wins. Yeah, they're they're gonna break down a
• 1:11:22
  Speaker 2: little bit, maybe they get hit with an injury bug.
• 1:11:26
  Speaker 2: You know, you just lose some sometimes. So for those reasons,
• 1:11:29
  Speaker 2: that's why I think the Vikings lose to the Patriots.
• 1:11:32
  Speaker 1: Okay, everybody in my family also predicted a loss, my wife.
• 1:11:36
  Speaker 2: And kids, so mine as well. My wife and kids
• 1:11:39
  Speaker 2: all predicted a loss too. So this is just an
• 1:11:43
  Speaker 2: upsetting week.
• 1:11:45
  Speaker 1: Yep, all right, you gotta flip the coin here. Let's
• 1:11:49
  Speaker 1: see what the coin says.
• 1:11:53
  Speaker 2: Coin says loss as well. Literally every losses everybody. So
• 1:11:57
  Speaker 2: you know what's gonna happen now, The Vikings will win, yeah, yeah,
• 1:12:00
  Speaker 2: because that's just how it.
• 1:12:02
  Speaker 1: Works, or it'll and if they win, it'll be their
• 1:12:05
  Speaker 1: third win of the season. Yeah, exactly, and at this
• 1:12:10
  Speaker 1: point we'll be calling to fire everybody no.
• 1:12:12
  Speaker 2: If yeah, exactly. So hopefully it's a better season than that.
• 1:12:18
  Speaker 1: I have some I'm joking. I've got the Vikings at
• 1:12:22
  Speaker 1: seven and six going into the final four games of
• 1:12:25
  Speaker 1: the season. That's that's not terrible.
• 1:12:27
  Speaker 2: I mean, that's not terrible, depending on how the rest
• 1:12:31
  Speaker 2: of the division looks, depending on how the wild card
• 1:12:34
  Speaker 2: situation looks. Seven and six after week fourteen, I mean,
• 1:12:38
  Speaker 2: you're not super hopeful, but you're within striking distance of
• 1:12:46
  Speaker 2: I mean, you could still finish with eleven wins. That's
• 1:12:49
  Speaker 2: playoff ish territory. If the Vikings had won eleven games
• 1:12:53
  Speaker 2: last year, they're making the playoffs. So, I mean, what
• 1:12:56
  Speaker 2: were they last year? I'm trying to think, do we
• 1:12:59
  Speaker 2: keep an actual We didn't keep like a tally.
• 1:13:04
  Speaker 1: They were nine and eight last year, weren't they. I
• 1:13:07
  Speaker 1: think they won nine games the Vikings did.
• 1:13:13
  Speaker 2: So after week thirteen, the Vikings were seven and six.
• 1:13:21
  Speaker 2: You're predicting another season of the Vikings. Of the twenty
• 1:13:26
  Speaker 2: twenty five Vikings so.
• 1:13:27
  Speaker 1: Far, Yeah, they were nine and eight last year.
• 1:13:30
  Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, yeah, after overall, they weren't think in six
• 1:13:35
  Speaker 2: what were they after Week fourteen and twenty twenty five.
• 1:13:37
  Speaker 2: After Week fourteen they were five and eight. Ah okay,
• 1:13:41
  Speaker 2: oh yeah, because they went on the U the five
• 1:13:44
  Speaker 2: game win streat.
• 1:13:45
  Speaker 1: They won five games.
• 1:13:46
  Speaker 2: Yeah, yep, okay. Well, after that disappointing week that we
• 1:13:51
  Speaker 2: all think they're going to have against the Patriots and
• 1:13:53
  Speaker 2: Week fourteen, the Vikings come home. They've got four games
• 1:13:57
  Speaker 2: left in the season, and three of them home games,
• 1:14:01
  Speaker 2: including Week fifteen against the Lions. Evan, who do you
• 1:14:06
  Speaker 2: have in the Vikings Lions game a week fifteen?
• 1:14:09
  Speaker 1: So I talked about the Lions earlier. I said they
• 1:14:13
  Speaker 1: could be a decent team, and I never said that
• 1:14:16
  Speaker 1: they would be a bad team. I never said that
• 1:14:19
  Speaker 1: they'd be winning the division. I also said the last
• 1:14:24
  Speaker 1: time that I picked the Vikings Lions game and I
• 1:14:26
  Speaker 1: picked a loss, that it was the beginning of a streak.
• 1:14:31
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Vikings win this game, and it's
• 1:14:35
  Speaker 1: also the beginning of another streak, all.
• 1:14:39
  Speaker 2: Right for me, I'd be okay with that. I think
• 1:14:43
  Speaker 2: the Vikings beat the Lions. I think I've been pretty vocal.
• 1:14:47
  Speaker 2: There's two things about the Lions. One, the Lions fan
• 1:14:50
  Speaker 2: base are the worst fan base in all of sports,
• 1:14:54
  Speaker 2: the absolute worst. They are the bottom feeders of fan
• 1:14:58
  Speaker 2: bases in all of sports too. They're back to the
• 1:15:02
  Speaker 2: same alliance. They suck again. I know they had the
• 1:15:05
  Speaker 2: same record the Vikings did in twenty twenty five, but
• 1:15:09
  Speaker 2: it was a worse nine to eight because they lost
• 1:15:12
  Speaker 2: to the Vikings twice. The Lions are just donezo now
• 1:15:16
  Speaker 2: and it'll take another rebuild, probably a different coach. But
• 1:15:20
  Speaker 2: one thing that's really nice about this, this downward spiral
• 1:15:25
  Speaker 2: of the Lions so far is Dan Campbell did have success,
• 1:15:30
  Speaker 2: so they're going to keep them around for a little
• 1:15:32
  Speaker 2: bit longer, which will just prolong this suckage of the
• 1:15:36
  Speaker 2: Lions team for a while. So, all that said, the
• 1:15:38
  Speaker 2: Lions losing to the Vikings twenty eight to seven, excuse me, man,
• 1:15:44
  Speaker 2: that was awesome. My wife and kids both said that
• 1:15:48
  Speaker 2: the Vikings would be the Lions as well.
• 1:15:51
  Speaker 1: My wife said they would lose to the Lions. My
• 1:15:53
  Speaker 1: thoids said they would win.
• 1:15:55
  Speaker 2: I thought she was a Vikings fan.
• 1:15:57
  Speaker 1: Well kind of. Alright, let's see what the coin says.
• 1:16:03
  Speaker 1: That almost took a drink in the beer. It looked
• 1:16:05
  Speaker 1: like it was heading that way. I caught it. It's
• 1:16:09
  Speaker 1: a win though, nice, all right, heads for the win.
• 1:16:13
  Speaker 2: Let's hope the coin. The coin is probably the most
• 1:16:15
  Speaker 2: realistic of all of us. The coin has six.
• 1:16:21
  Speaker 1: Game a six game losing streak. That's pretty drastic.
• 1:16:25
  Speaker 2: Man, to lose six games between week four and crap,
• 1:16:29
  Speaker 2: I keep doing the whole there we go between week
• 1:16:33
  Speaker 2: four and to not win a game again until week eleven.
• 1:16:38
  Speaker 2: That gets people fired, like things, People panic and things
• 1:16:42
  Speaker 2: would change. That would take a benching of someone's you know,
• 1:16:46
  Speaker 2: at multiple positions. But then, so, let's hope the coin
• 1:16:49
  Speaker 2: is wrong.
• 1:16:50
  Speaker 1: All right, So going into the final three games, now
• 1:16:52
  Speaker 1: you have predicted the best record of anybody. Ten and four.
• 1:16:56
  Speaker 1: We've got a couple of nine and five's your wife,
• 1:16:59
  Speaker 1: my kids. We've got several eight and sixes, your kids,
• 1:17:03
  Speaker 1: me and my wife. We're all at eight and six,
• 1:17:06
  Speaker 1: and then the coin is at six and eight. The
• 1:17:09
  Speaker 1: Vikings will play the Commanders. This is a TVD game.
• 1:17:13
  Speaker 1: This is one of those flex games. I think that
• 1:17:15
  Speaker 1: the league kind of builds into the schedule. I would
• 1:17:19
  Speaker 1: venture to guess that if the Vikings and the Commanders
• 1:17:22
  Speaker 1: are both having good seasons, they're both playoff contenders. This
• 1:17:26
  Speaker 1: would be a primetime game. Possibly Sunday night, Monday night,
• 1:17:31
  Speaker 1: probably not a Thursday night. I think they set all
• 1:17:34
  Speaker 1: the Thursday night games in Stone before the season, So
• 1:17:37
  Speaker 1: you're looking at either a Sunday or a Monday night game.
• 1:17:40
  Speaker 2: Well, this is the time too, I don't know when
• 1:17:42
  Speaker 2: the college season ends. This could be a Saturday game
• 1:17:45
  Speaker 2: as well, they start to creep into the Saturday time.
• 1:17:47
  Speaker 2: Either way, there's more potential. That's why these are all
• 1:17:51
  Speaker 2: TVD I think for most teams.
• 1:17:52
  Speaker 1: This might actually be. This might be that like kind
• 1:17:55
  Speaker 1: of quiet week in the college football playoff series where
• 1:17:59
  Speaker 1: there are noble games or they're not a ton of
• 1:18:01
  Speaker 1: bowl games because it's between basically between Christmas and New Year's.
• 1:18:07
  Speaker 1: So yeah, it'll be interesting to see how that plays out.
• 1:18:10
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna say the Vikings win this one against the Commanders.
• 1:18:14
  Speaker 1: The Commanders could be an interesting team, but I said
• 1:18:20
  Speaker 1: the Vikings were going on a streak, so I think
• 1:18:23
  Speaker 1: they continue that streak. That's two in a row, and
• 1:18:27
  Speaker 1: I like those home stretches where they get a couple
• 1:18:31
  Speaker 1: of games at home in a row. I think there's
• 1:18:33
  Speaker 1: comfort there, familiarity, got the home crowd behind you. I
• 1:18:38
  Speaker 1: like home games. I think they win them.
• 1:18:40
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so I've got the Vikings losing to the Commanders.
• 1:18:44
  Speaker 2: You're going to have wins and losses. This one's probably
• 1:18:47
  Speaker 2: gonna be a little bit of a dud. I said
• 1:18:49
  Speaker 2: fourteen to ten the Vikings would lose Commanders. They at
• 1:18:53
  Speaker 2: least have a good quarterback. And if Jade Daniels is healthy,
• 1:18:55
  Speaker 2: which he wasn't really healthy the last time the Vikings
• 1:18:59
  Speaker 2: played him. I think last season he had been injured
• 1:19:01
  Speaker 2: and then he came back, and then he injured his
• 1:19:04
  Speaker 2: elbow again against the Vikings last year. So if Jaydon
• 1:19:09
  Speaker 2: Daniels is healthy and the team is still moving at
• 1:19:13
  Speaker 2: the rate they should because the Commanders are a decent team. Yeah,
• 1:19:16
  Speaker 2: I think the Vikings lose to the Commanders. My wife
• 1:19:19
  Speaker 2: and kids both said that it would be a win
• 1:19:22
  Speaker 2: against the Commanders.
• 1:19:23
  Speaker 1: And my wife and kids also predicted a win. So
• 1:19:26
  Speaker 1: right now, you're the sole loss. Let's see what the
• 1:19:28
  Speaker 1: coin says. I'm feeling a win.
• 1:19:31
  Speaker 2: The coin set a loss. The coin does not like
• 1:19:33
  Speaker 2: the Vikings this year, because the coin has the Vikings
• 1:19:37
  Speaker 2: at six and seven after week sixteen.
• 1:19:40
  Speaker 1: Six, not six and seven, six and nine.
• 1:19:42
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, six and nine. I went the wrong way.
• 1:19:45
  Speaker 2: I just about, Yeah, you just did.
• 1:19:47
  Speaker 1: I just about went for that whole thing. I did not,
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 1: all right.
• 1:19:51
  Speaker 2: The final away game of the season is a week
• 1:19:54
  Speaker 2: seventeen against the Jets. Currently, Aaron Glenn is still the
• 1:19:59
  Speaker 2: head coach there CURRCT, and he's just entering the second
• 1:20:03
  Speaker 2: season of his tenure. But it's not crazy to think
• 1:20:06
  Speaker 2: that a coach could be fired if they have a
• 1:20:09
  Speaker 2: terrible season towards the end of their second season, and
• 1:20:13
  Speaker 2: the Jets are a terrible team for that reason, I
• 1:20:16
  Speaker 2: think the Vikings win, and I think it's gonna be
• 1:20:19
  Speaker 2: another blowout type game. I've got the Vikings winning like
• 1:20:22
  Speaker 2: twenty seven to three, and it could be another blowout.
• 1:20:26
  Speaker 2: I don't know. So the Vikings are really going to
• 1:20:29
  Speaker 2: be turning into their own and I know not gonna
• 1:20:34
  Speaker 2: keep secrets. I think it'll be a playoff team this year,
• 1:20:37
  Speaker 2: and this is just gonna be a beatdown of a
• 1:20:39
  Speaker 2: worst team in that team's own stadium.
• 1:20:43
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I agree, I think it's a win. I don't
• 1:20:46
  Speaker 1: think the Jets are a very good team. I'm not
• 1:20:49
  Speaker 1: going to make any predictions on whether or not they
• 1:20:51
  Speaker 1: keep their coach up to this point or not, but
• 1:20:57
  Speaker 1: it'll be a cold weather game. I think that'll make
• 1:20:59
  Speaker 1: it interesting for Vikings fans. Historically the Vikings don't do
• 1:21:03
  Speaker 1: super well in cold weather games. But I'm calling it
• 1:21:07
  Speaker 1: a win ten and six going into the final game
• 1:21:10
  Speaker 1: of the year. My wife said it was a win.
• 1:21:12
  Speaker 1: My kids said it was a loss. But all of
• 1:21:14
  Speaker 1: us are at ten and six going into the final
• 1:21:16
  Speaker 1: game of the season.
• 1:21:17
  Speaker 2: Interesting. My wife said it was a win, my kids
• 1:21:19
  Speaker 2: said it was a win. My kids are ten and
• 1:21:21
  Speaker 2: six as well, but my wife and I are both
• 1:21:24
  Speaker 2: at eleven and five.
• 1:21:25
  Speaker 1: Okay, coin flip here we go heads, Oh win, all right.
• 1:21:34
  Speaker 2: The coin's been up and down in the last few games,
• 1:21:37
  Speaker 2: so the coin has the Vikings at seven and nine
• 1:21:40
  Speaker 2: heading into the final game of the season.
• 1:21:43
  Speaker 1: Okay, final game of the season then is a home game,
• 1:21:47
  Speaker 1: another TBD game, FLEX game, probably in the ballpark of
• 1:21:52
  Speaker 1: January tenth ish against the Bears. It'll be at US
• 1:21:57
  Speaker 1: Bank Stadium. I think this could be one of those
• 1:22:02
  Speaker 1: games that decides playoff implications. I think that's that's what
• 1:22:07
  Speaker 1: the league wants. They want those yeah.
• 1:22:10
  Speaker 2: Week division games at the end of the season.
• 1:22:14
  Speaker 1: Yes, they want the Week eighteen games to be deciding games.
• 1:22:19
  Speaker 1: I think this could be a deciding game for the North,
• 1:22:22
  Speaker 1: it could be a deciding game for a wild card position.
• 1:22:27
  Speaker 1: It'll just depend. But I'm saying it's a win that
• 1:22:31
  Speaker 1: puts the Vikings at eleven and six on the season.
• 1:22:35
  Speaker 2: All right. I agree it's a win, a pretty solid
• 1:22:39
  Speaker 2: win too. I don't think it'll be one of those
• 1:22:43
  Speaker 2: where the Vikings are resting starters by any means. I
• 1:22:46
  Speaker 2: agree with you. It'll probably be either a division or
• 1:22:50
  Speaker 2: playoff game deciding game, which is fun. I like those.
• 1:22:57
  Speaker 2: They're nerve racking. I'd like to have the division locked up,
• 1:23:01
  Speaker 2: you know, week thirteen or so, but that's just not
• 1:23:04
  Speaker 2: the reality of your favorite team every year, especially the Vikings.
• 1:23:09
  Speaker 2: But either way, I do think the Vikings beat the Bears.
• 1:23:12
  Speaker 2: Let me double check. I do have them going one
• 1:23:14
  Speaker 2: and one against the Bears this year. I think I
• 1:23:17
  Speaker 2: have them beating the Packers twice and the Lions twice.
• 1:23:20
  Speaker 2: So for me, I've got one division loss for the
• 1:23:24
  Speaker 2: Vikings this year, and that's only against the Bears early on.
• 1:23:29
  Speaker 2: But I still think it's going to be a good
• 1:23:31
  Speaker 2: team and a playoff level team, a division winning level team,
• 1:23:36
  Speaker 2: and one that'll surprise a lot of people, including a
• 1:23:39
  Speaker 2: lot of Vikings fans, and hopefully we're talking about how
• 1:23:43
  Speaker 2: much Kyler Murray should be paid after this season, because
• 1:23:47
  Speaker 2: it'll be a good year. My wife has a loss
• 1:23:50
  Speaker 2: for the Vikings, but really she was just looking at
• 1:23:52
  Speaker 2: last year's stats when she picked all these games. My
• 1:23:57
  Speaker 2: kids have a win. I have the Vikings at twelve
• 1:24:00
  Speaker 2: and five for the season.
• 1:24:02
  Speaker 1: Yeah, my wife picked a loss, putting them at ten
• 1:24:06
  Speaker 1: and seven. My kids picked a win eleven and six.
• 1:24:10
  Speaker 1: Interestingly enough, I looked at my stats. I have the
• 1:24:13
  Speaker 1: Vikings going one and one against all the divisional opponents.
• 1:24:17
  Speaker 1: Interesting loss, three and three in the division overall, which
• 1:24:23
  Speaker 1: that could have some If that's how it plays out,
• 1:24:25
  Speaker 1: that could have some pretty interesting playoff implications. I don't
• 1:24:28
  Speaker 1: know that an eleven and six record going three and
• 1:24:32
  Speaker 1: three in the division wins the.
• 1:24:34
  Speaker 2: Division wins it, No, but that's definitely playoff conversations.
• 1:24:38
  Speaker 1: It's playoff conversation for sure. So that's my final question
• 1:24:41
  Speaker 1: here is do the Vikings make the playoffs? So?
• 1:24:47
  Speaker 2: I think yes, But haven't we in previous years used
• 1:24:51
  Speaker 2: the coin to predict and then that dictated purple punishments
• 1:24:55
  Speaker 2: into the playoffs.
• 1:24:56
  Speaker 1: We can do that.
• 1:24:57
  Speaker 2: Yeah, So the coin still needs to predict the Bears game,
• 1:25:01
  Speaker 2: and I think it's me isn't it.
• 1:25:03
  Speaker 1: Yes, go ahead and do that.
• 1:25:07
  Speaker 2: The coin says, heads, it's gonna be a win against
• 1:25:09
  Speaker 2: the Bears, all right. So the coin has the Vikings
• 1:25:12
  Speaker 2: finishing eight and nine, which is one game worse than
• 1:25:16
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty five. Oh, I'm sorry, yeah, yeah, yeah, you're correct.
• 1:25:23
  Speaker 2: Eight and nine is not ideal. No, that's not winning
• 1:25:27
  Speaker 2: the playoffs. That would only make it to the playoffs
• 1:25:29
  Speaker 2: if every other team in the division was worse than that.
• 1:25:33
  Speaker 2: That's the only route for an eight and nine team
• 1:25:35
  Speaker 2: to make the playoffs. I think that's how the Panthers
• 1:25:38
  Speaker 2: made it last season.
• 1:25:39
  Speaker 1: Yes, So I want to know, from your perspective, your
• 1:25:47
  Speaker 1: twelve and five record, what does that get the Vikings.
• 1:25:51
  Speaker 2: I think twelve and five in a division that's this tight,
• 1:25:56
  Speaker 2: because that means you beat some of your division rivals.
• 1:26:00
  Speaker 2: Twelve and five wins the NFC North for the Vikings
• 1:26:03
  Speaker 2: this year. I wonder what the record was for the
• 1:26:07
  Speaker 2: Chicago Bears last year. Let's double check. This shouldn't take
• 1:26:16
  Speaker 2: this long. Last year in twenty twenty five, the Viking
• 1:26:19
  Speaker 2: or the Bears won the division with an eleven and
• 1:26:23
  Speaker 2: six record, two games better than the Vikings. So we
• 1:26:27
  Speaker 2: talk about how it's such a difficult division, which it
• 1:26:32
  Speaker 2: really is, but that means the division is going to
• 1:26:35
  Speaker 2: beat itself sometimes. So we're not going to have a
• 1:26:39
  Speaker 2: seventeen and oh team, a fifteen and two team probably,
• 1:26:43
  Speaker 2: or we're gonna have a bunch of teams like the
• 1:26:46
  Speaker 2: like the NFC North last year that all finished within
• 1:26:49
  Speaker 2: two games of each other. So yeah, I think twelve
• 1:26:52
  Speaker 2: and five against even the same tough NFC North is
• 1:26:56
  Speaker 2: good enough to win the division. And I think the
• 1:26:59
  Speaker 2: Vikings make a playoff runt.
• 1:27:01
  Speaker 1: What do you think I'm thinking? So I said eleven
• 1:27:04
  Speaker 1: and six. I think they get a wild card spot.
• 1:27:06
  Speaker 1: I don't think they win the division. I think they
• 1:27:10
  Speaker 1: get a wild card spot, and I think they I
• 1:27:14
  Speaker 1: think they win a wild card game, but then I
• 1:27:18
  Speaker 1: think they lose in the divisional game. Okay, after that,
• 1:27:21
  Speaker 1: so they win a playoff game, and I think that's
• 1:27:24
  Speaker 1: going to be enough to keep KOs around for a
• 1:27:27
  Speaker 1: little bit because he hasn't won a playoff game yet.
• 1:27:29
  Speaker 1: He made it his first season twenty twenty three, lost
• 1:27:32
  Speaker 1: in the wildcard round and that was kind of well, no,
• 1:27:36
  Speaker 1: they made it with Sam Darnold too, didn't they.
• 1:27:39
  Speaker 2: Yeah, but that was the wild card loss as well,
• 1:27:41
  Speaker 2: lost Rams.
• 1:27:42
  Speaker 1: So two wildcard losses. I think they finally win one,
• 1:27:45
  Speaker 1: and I think that's enough to instill some confidence long
• 1:27:49
  Speaker 1: term in KOC. But yeah, they lose in the second round,
• 1:27:56
  Speaker 1: don't make it to the NFC Championship game.
• 1:27:58
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think. I don't think I said what I
• 1:28:00
  Speaker 2: think in the playoffs. I just think said that they
• 1:28:03
  Speaker 2: make the playoffs. I think the Vikings again, yeah, win
• 1:28:07
  Speaker 2: a wild card game and if they hit the ceiling,
• 1:28:10
  Speaker 2: I think they could they win the divisional game to
• 1:28:13
  Speaker 2: make it to the NFC Championship Game. But I think
• 1:28:17
  Speaker 2: there's definitely other teams, the Rams specifically at this point,
• 1:28:21
  Speaker 2: that are just in a different league than the Vikings.
• 1:28:25
  Speaker 2: So even if the Vikings do hit their ceiling and
• 1:28:27
  Speaker 2: outplay their their level right now, I just don't think
• 1:28:31
  Speaker 2: they're making it to the Super Bowl. So I think,
• 1:28:33
  Speaker 2: no matter what their their ceiling is losing in the
• 1:28:37
  Speaker 2: NFC Championship Game.
• 1:28:39
  Speaker 1: All Right, Well, we will post maybe we can post
• 1:28:43
  Speaker 1: like a screenshot of this and maybe we can simplify
• 1:28:47
  Speaker 1: it a little bit so it's just us and the
• 1:28:49
  Speaker 1: coin flip and get that up and put that less me.
• 1:28:55
  Speaker 1: Are you allergic sneezing at something? Yeah, we'll put that
• 1:28:58
  Speaker 1: up maybe on the screen, or maybe we can maybe
• 1:29:01
  Speaker 1: we can figure out a way to like do a
• 1:29:02
  Speaker 1: link like to the spreadsheets so people can just look
• 1:29:06
  Speaker 1: at the spreadsheet and keep up.
• 1:29:07
  Speaker 2: With it and keep up.
• 1:29:10
  Speaker 1: So after each game, we'll go down the list and
• 1:29:14
  Speaker 1: we'll check a box. We just put a check box
• 1:29:16
  Speaker 1: next to each prediction. If it was right, we checked
• 1:29:19
  Speaker 1: the box. If it was wrong, we don't, and we
• 1:29:22
  Speaker 1: kind of just boil it down to a simple percentage.
• 1:29:24
  Speaker 1: Whoever had the best percentage at the end is the winner.
• 1:29:28
  Speaker 1: But really we're using this also to uh predict purple
• 1:29:33
  Speaker 1: punishments or to determine purple punishments. So, uh, if we
• 1:29:38
  Speaker 1: if you or I pick incorrectly, So if you said
• 1:29:41
  Speaker 1: the Vikings would win and they lose, or if the
• 1:29:44
  Speaker 1: Vikings loss and we predicted a win, we've got to
• 1:29:48
  Speaker 1: spin the wheel. If if one of us predicted incorrectly,
• 1:29:51
  Speaker 1: the other picked correctly, then only one of us spins.
• 1:29:56
  Speaker 1: But if we both pick incorrectly, we both spin the wheel.
• 1:29:59
  Speaker 1: We're both subject to the punishment.
• 1:30:01
  Speaker 2: Here's my proposal for our locks. If we're incorrect about
• 1:30:05
  Speaker 2: our locks, I think that's worth a milert shot.
• 1:30:09
  Speaker 1: I didn't pick a lock to lose.
• 1:30:11
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so we both picked a lock to win against
• 1:30:15
  Speaker 2: the Dolphins in week four My lock to lose was
• 1:30:18
  Speaker 2: at the Patriots in week fourteen. Evan, can you can
• 1:30:22
  Speaker 2: you think of a lock to lose looking at your predictions?
• 1:30:26
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, I'm gonna it's pretty easy. I'm gonna say
• 1:30:28
  Speaker 1: they lose for sure in Mexico City, Ah, against the
• 1:30:32
  Speaker 1: forty nine ers. I just think that international travel game,
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  Speaker 1: it's tough. It'll come at the at the end of
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  Speaker 1: a pretty tough stretch for the Vikings. That's my lock
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  Speaker 1: to lose.
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  Speaker 2: All right. Do you agree with the alert?
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  Speaker 1: Yes? Okay, all right, So if we are wrong on
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  Speaker 1: the locks, it's the punishment plus alort shot. Yeah, okay.
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  Speaker 2: And I like that we have a different lock, and
• 1:31:00
  Speaker 2: I like that we have a similar lock too, so
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  Speaker 2: that'll be interesting. I'm excited. We still need to figure
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  Speaker 2: out our purple punishments, so we need a wheel consisting
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  Speaker 2: of eighteen well seventeen unless we wanted to add I
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  Speaker 2: think last year we added we each picked a game
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  Speaker 2: for the bye week other game in the NFL for
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  Speaker 2: the bye week. So I don't know, we'll figure that out,
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  Speaker 2: but we need at least seventeen punishments to throw out there.
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  Speaker 2: So listeners, if you can think of any punishments, and
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  Speaker 2: we reserve the right to veto anything, go ahead and
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  Speaker 2: let us know. We can add it to the wheel caveat.
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  Speaker 2: It's probably got to be something that we can do
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  Speaker 2: quick on the episode. So like an example that we
• 1:31:47
  Speaker 2: can do is like eat something spicy. Yeah, eat something spicy.
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  Speaker 2: An example that would be difficult to do would be
• 1:31:53
  Speaker 2: like the beer mile, where you have to run a
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  Speaker 2: mile and drink a beer because that would just be
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  Speaker 2: difficult to film, or something like that. If you can
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  Speaker 2: think of something that's worth a quick funny punishment, let
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  Speaker 2: us know, Uh, let us you know, send us an
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  Speaker 2: email or write in the comments.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, just let us know. Yeah, and yeah, we're we're
• 1:32:14
  Speaker 1: open to a lot of stuff. We've eaten, sardines, we shot,
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  Speaker 1: you'll have a canon of sardines. Do we shot each
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  Speaker 1: other in the butt with BB guns? I think I
• 1:32:24
  Speaker 1: took it to the gut, which which you could Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: for the week at heart. That's fine. What else did
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  Speaker 1: we do? We've done We've uh consumed our beers through
• 1:32:38
  Speaker 1: swirly straws. We've sat in child's chairs.
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  Speaker 2: You were blindfolded for a whole episode.
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  Speaker 1: We wore socks on our hands. Yeah, we wore gloves.
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  Speaker 1: We had we taped a football to our hands.
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  Speaker 2: Do you remember when we had to whisper the whole episode?
• 1:32:57
  Speaker 2: That was probably the worst bidden episode.
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  Speaker 1: Worse the list episode ever.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't do it. I listened to every episode. I
• 1:33:04
  Speaker 2: couldn't listen to that episode. We've done some pretty stupid stuff,
• 1:33:09
  Speaker 2: but it's fun.
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  Speaker 1: So it's fun and it keeps it interesting around here.
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  Speaker 1: So give us some suggestions. Let us know what you'd
• 1:33:18
  Speaker 1: like to see us do on an episode. If we're
• 1:33:20
  Speaker 1: punished for picking incorrectly, I did not feel like I
• 1:33:25
  Speaker 1: was punished for drinking this beer. This beer was super good.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, this beer was fantastic, even though, like I said,
• 1:33:33
  Speaker 2: it was probably brewed by a Cyclones fan. I don't
• 1:33:36
  Speaker 2: know if you can pick up on it. My voice
• 1:33:38
  Speaker 2: is going out right now.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, a few times.
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  Speaker 2: I don't know what's happening. I don't think it's the beer.
• 1:33:44
  Speaker 1: You're dying right in front of me.
• 1:33:47
  Speaker 2: No, there's something's going on. I did go to an
• 1:33:50
  Speaker 2: amusement park yesterday and I wrote some roller coasters, and
• 1:33:53
  Speaker 2: I'm a screamer on roller coasters. But like, I don't know,
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  Speaker 2: you could tell me when I walked in here. It's
• 1:33:58
  Speaker 2: not if my voice was gone, so maybe I've just
• 1:34:02
  Speaker 2: been talking it out all night. But either way, it
• 1:34:04
  Speaker 2: wasn't the beer's fault. This beer was fantastic, good flavor,
• 1:34:09
  Speaker 2: decent head retention. I mean everything about it was good.
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  Speaker 2: I would have this beer ten times over.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, super good beer. I liked all the different flavor notes,
• 1:34:19
  Speaker 1: including the gummy bears. It's just a it's a good
• 1:34:23
  Speaker 1: tasting New England. I PA. It's hazy, it's citrusy, it's sweet.
• 1:34:30
  Speaker 1: It's good. Yeah. And I had a few Alluvial beers
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  Speaker 1: when I visited them. I don't think I've had an
• 1:34:37
  Speaker 1: Alluvial beer since, so it's probably been like seven or
• 1:34:41
  Speaker 1: eight years since I've had one of their beers. This
• 1:34:44
  Speaker 1: didn't disappoint and if I see it again, I'm probably
• 1:34:47
  Speaker 1: gonna have to grab another one off the shelf.
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  Speaker 2: Absolutely, yeah, this has sold me on their beers, no
• 1:34:52
  Speaker 2: matter what it could say, pickle on it, and I'd
• 1:34:54
  Speaker 2: probably pick it up because it's really good.
• 1:34:57
  Speaker 1: You pickled it up, all right.
• 1:35:01
  Speaker 2: If people loved that joke that you just made, where
• 1:35:04
  Speaker 2: can they reach out to us to tell us how
• 1:35:05
  Speaker 2: much they loved it?
• 1:35:07
  Speaker 1: They could email us the Skullhop at gmail dot com.
• 1:35:10
  Speaker 1: We check that pretty frequently. You can message us on
• 1:35:13
  Speaker 1: Facebook or Twitter. We're also pretty active there. I'd say,
• 1:35:17
  Speaker 1: the other platforms, we're there. We're just kind of you know,
• 1:35:20
  Speaker 1: we're the chill guy. Yeah, you know, the chill Guy meme.
• 1:35:23
  Speaker 1: We're just we're there. We're hanging out TikTok and some
• 1:35:26
  Speaker 1: of the others Instagram. But yeah, if you really wanted
• 1:35:29
  Speaker 1: to like get our attention, hit us up on our
• 1:35:33
  Speaker 1: email or Facebook or Twitter. We'd also probably see a
• 1:35:37
  Speaker 1: comment on YouTube if that was dropped in there for us.
• 1:35:41
  Speaker 1: But yeah, we're out there, We're we're present on many platforms.
• 1:35:47
  Speaker 2: Absolutely, and to derail it really quick. The Vikings in
• 1:35:51
  Speaker 2: the last like half hour have tweeted two pretty impressive
• 1:35:56
  Speaker 2: throws from both quarterbacks from today's practice, and the one
• 1:36:01
  Speaker 2: they tweeted from Kyler Murray to Jordan Addison on the
• 1:36:04
  Speaker 2: run was that should get anybody jacked up like that.
• 1:36:09
  Speaker 2: That That was a pretty throw. Just just watch this
• 1:36:11
  Speaker 2: really quick boom. Yeah. So yeah, if you want to
• 1:36:15
  Speaker 2: tell us what you thought of that throw, let us know. Evan,
• 1:36:19
  Speaker 2: this was a really great beer. This was a lot
• 1:36:22
  Speaker 2: of fun. I love to pick them episode. It's one
• 1:36:24
  Speaker 2: of my favorites. I don't know how it plays out
• 1:36:26
  Speaker 2: for the listener, but I love going through and predicting
• 1:36:29
  Speaker 2: the games and playing the coin game too. You could
• 1:36:33
  Speaker 2: say maybe best episode. Yeah, let's skull.
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  Speaker 3: I think I think, I think, I think, I think,
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think I think. I think.
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  Speaker 3: I think. I think. I think, I think, I think,
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  Speaker 3: I think, I think, I think, I think
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  Speaker 1: I